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A bold new argument about how food rituals worldwide in the eighteenth century reveal an unpublished history regarding the rise of the novel. In The Barbarous Feast, Sophie Gee argues that novels and food rituals are interconnected yet contradictory systems used to depict autonomy and represent personal interiority in colonial Europe, the Americas, and Australia. Gee tells a lively story of how people living on the margins of colonial power drew from food and writing to manage their inner lives. She introduces the term “metabolic subjectivity” to describe the concept of active, embodied autonomy shaped through consumption, connecting humans with other living species. Although originating from colonial food rituals, this concept offers new perspectives for understanding personal interiority in written texts. Gee narrates interconnected stories of food and writing ranging from the Protestant Lord’s Supper to ceremonies of attack by Indigenous peoples in the West Indies. She alternates chapters of literary analysis, providing new interpretations of Daniel Defoe, Richard Ligon, Richard Steele, Henry Fielding, and others, with personal non-literary essays exploring the continuity of empire and the autonomy of empire in Australia. With The Barbarous Feast, she offers an extensive overview of interiority within and beyond novels, across countries, historical periods, and cultures, engaging literary studies in dialogue with environmental studies, religious history, Indigenous studies, and food studies.
Manufacturer
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Type
- Humanities, Anthropology - Ethnology
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 352
- Release Date
- 28/07/2026
- Publication Date
- 2026
- Dimensions
- 15.6x23.4 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780691209715
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