{"product_id":"food-restraint-and-fasting-in-lesa-scholl-9781350256514","title":"Food Restraint and Fasting in Victorian Religion and Literature","description":"Through an interdisciplinary lens of theology, medicine, and literary criticism, this book examines the complicated intersections of food consumption, political economy, and religious conviction in nineteenth-century Britain. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScholarship on fasting is gendered. This book deliberately faces this gendering by looking at the way in which four Victorian women writers - Christina Rossetti, Alice Meynell, Elizabeth Gaskell and Josephine Butler - each engage with food restraint from ethical, social and theological perspectives. While many studies look at fasting as a form of spiritual discipline or punishment, or alternatively as anorexia nervosa, this book positions limiting food consumption as an ethical choice in response to the food insecurity of others. By examining their works in this way, this study repositions feminine religious practice and writing in relation to food consumption within broader contexts of ecocriticism, economics and social justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lesa Scholl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 135025651X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350256514\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/27\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d","brand":"Lesa Scholl","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43993213534463,"sku":"9781350256514","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9fc889dd-e9b8-46fb-ad92-815171953455.jpg?v=1683323128","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/food-restraint-and-fasting-in-lesa-scholl-9781350256514","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}