{"product_id":"the-barbarous-feast-sophie-gee-9780691209722","title":"The Barbarous Feast: Eating and Writing in the Eighteenth-Century World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold new argument about how eating rituals across the eighteenth-century globe reveal an untold story about the rise of the novel\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Barbarous Feast\u003c\/i\u003e, Sophie Gee argues that novels and eating rituals were interconnected, but conflicting, systems used to depict selfhood and represent personal inwardness in colonial Europe, the Americas, and Australia. Gee tells a vibrant story of how people living at the margins of colonial power drew upon eating and writing to manage their own interior lives. She coins the term \"metabolic subjectivity\" to describe the idea of energetic, embodied selfhood that is made by eating and drinking and which connects humans to other living species. This concept, while taken from colonial eating rituals, offers new ways to understand personal inwardness in written texts. Gee tells intersecting stories of eating and writing that range from the Protestant Lord's Supper to West Indian Indigenous predation rituals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGee alternates chapters of literary analysis, offering new readings of Daniel Defoe, Richard Ligon, Richard Steele, Henry Fielding, and others, with personal nonfiction essays exploring the afterlife of empire and imperial inwardness in Australia. With \u003ci\u003eThe Barbarous Feast\u003c\/i\u003e, she offers an expansive account of inwardness in and out of novels, and across countries, historical periods, and cultures, putting literary studies in conversation with environmental studies, religious history, Indigenous studies, and food studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sophie Gee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691209723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691209722\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Sophie Gee","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48066709487871,"sku":"9780691209722","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4def4df9-c784-481f-bd06-9f434893f10b.jpg?v=1768680027","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-barbarous-feast-sophie-gee-9780691209722","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}