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Second World War Rationing Second World War Rationing
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The Wartime Egg The Wartime Egg
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Post-war Austerity and Educating Taste Post-war Austerity and Educating Taste
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Seven Late Modernist Rationing: War, Class, Power
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Published:October 2019
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Abstract
Late modernist writers highlight food consumption as a palatable means of discussing their reactions to perceived shifts in class and power in British society. This chapter considers the food in work by Elizabeth Bowen, Barbara Pym, Henry Green, Olivia Manning, and Elizabeth David. In the wartime fiction of Bowen and Green, the innocuous egg trades as class currency, and the writers’ attention to the presence or loss of eggs indicates deep concerns about a decline in class privilege. Barbara Pym’s postwar Excellent Women registers the liberating effects of austerity for single women, and Manning’s novels pair with David’s postwar cookbook depicting elegant and unobtainable Mediterranean food that helped democratize “good taste” for the changed social landscape of postwar Britain.
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