Michael Parrish Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 5141533 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Parrish Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael Parrish |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1313-0125 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gaskell's Food Plots and the Biopolitics of the Industrial Novel
This essay uses Elizabeth Gaskell's industrial novels Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1955) to chart an intersection between biopolitics, food studies, and questions of novelistic form. First, the essay develops the argument that with the emergence of population as a key cultural concern, the Victorian novel became a biopolitical form structured by an interplay between the marriage plot and what I call the “food plot.” Following Thomas Ma…
Eating Things
This essay tests how Lewis Carroll’s Alice books might bridge four potentially disparate approaches to literary analysis: thing theory, animal studies, actor-network theory, and food studies. Expanding the investigation of objects and “things” in literature beyond a human/thing dichotomy, I draw on the actor-network theory (ANT) of Bruno Latour to explore the entanglement of humans, objects, animals, and appetites that generates so much of the wo…
Reading Meat in H. G. Wells
Reading Meat in H. G. Wells Michael Parrish Lee The nineteenth-century novel is stuffed with meat—recall Catherine's refusal to eat her goose after Heathcliff's flogging in Wuthering Heights (1847), Pip's theft of pork pie for Magwitch in Great Expectations (1860-61), or Fred and Rosamond Vincy's quarrel over a grilled bone in Middlemarch (1871-72)—and if the subject has been largely passed over by critics in the field, we might attribute this ne…
Eating Things
This essay tests how Lewis Carroll’s Alice books might bridge four potentially disparate approaches to literary analysis: thing theory, animal studies, actor-network theory, and food studies. Expanding the investigation of objects and “things” in literature beyond a human/thing dichotomy, I draw on the actor-network theory (ANT) of Bruno Latour to explore the entanglement of humans, objects, animals, and appetites that generates so much of the wo…
Reading Meat in H. G. Wells
Reading Meat in H. G. Wells Michael Parrish Lee The nineteenth-century novel is stuffed with meat—recall Catherine's refusal to eat her goose after Heathcliff's flogging in Wuthering Heights (1847), Pip's theft of pork pie for Magwitch in Great Expectations (1860-61), or Fred and Rosamond Vincy's quarrel over a grilled bone in Middlemarch (1871-72)—and if the subject has been largely passed over by critics in the field, we might attribute this ne…
Eating Things
This essay tests how Lewis Carroll’s Alice books might bridge four potentially disparate approaches to literary analysis: thing theory, animal studies, actor-network theory, and food studies. Expanding the investigation of objects and “things” in literature beyond a human/thing dichotomy, I draw on the actor-network theory (ANT) of Bruno Latour to explore the entanglement of humans, objects, animals, and appetites that generates so much of the wo…
Gaskell's Food Plots and the Biopolitics of the Industrial Novel
This essay uses Elizabeth Gaskell's industrial novels Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1955) to chart an intersection between biopolitics, food studies, and questions of novelistic form. First, the essay develops the argument that with the emergence of population as a key cultural concern, the Victorian novel became a biopolitical form structured by an interplay between the marriage plot and what I call the “food plot.” Following Thomas Ma…
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (2 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Actor–network theory (1 work)