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Journal Article
‘You're quite a gourmet, aren't you, Palmer?’ Masculinity and Food in the Spy Fiction of Len Deighton
2012
Overview
In this paper, the novel and film ofLen Deighton's1962spy novelThe IPCRESS File
, along with
Len Deighton's Action Cookbook
(reprints of newspaper strips that were purposely designed for a young, male audience) will be analysed as diagnostic texts, revealing a peculiarlyBritish(or even English) variant on a new affluent and aspirationalmasculinityformed in the late 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s, where the explicit disaffection of the previous decade (the ‘Angry Young Man’ or the bohemian) is mediated intoconsumption, the pleasures ofdegustation, and a laconic ‘cool’.
