Fantastic Food: Food as Magic or Reality’s Touchstone in Fantasy Literature

Patricia Childress, Johnson & Wales University - Charlotte

Associate Professor

Johnson & Wales University, Charlotte

College of Arts & Sciences

English

Description

This paper explores food as a device for magic or realism in the literature of the fantastic in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, J. K. Rowling, George R.R. Martin and Laura Esquival.

 
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Fantastic Food: Food as Magic or Reality’s Touchstone in Fantasy Literature

Withers 117

This paper explores food as a device for magic or realism in the literature of the fantastic in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, J. K. Rowling, George R.R. Martin and Laura Esquival.