Article(electronic)#1May 2006
Over-Eating: Pilgrimage's Food Mania and the Flânerie of Public Foraging
In: Modernist cultures, Volume 2, Issue 1, p. 42-57
ISSN: 1753-8629
Reading Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage through its protagonist's bodily rhythms (specifically hunger), Lois Cucullu (University of Minnesota) suggests that eating is, in one sense, the most democratic of corporeal drives. Maintaining that Miriam Henderson is as much a "conscripted New Woman ... compelled into the workforce as a teenager", Cucullu focuses on 'alimentary protocols' (after Girard) as a vector of Henderson's sinusoidal integration with and resistance of the modern urban landscape.