Food codes in Victorian and modernist novels (George Eliot, D.H. Lawrence)

The article deals with the specifics of food codes in Victorian and modernist novels. The material under analysis includes novels by George Eliot («Silas Marner», «The Mill on the Floss», «Middlemarch») and D.G. Lawrence («Lady Chatterley's Lover»). The authors focused on the transformation of the food code semantics in the course of development of everyday discourse in English literature of the 19-20 th centuries. The main issues considered in the paper are the system of cultural codes, peculiarities of Victorian and modernist mythologizing, poetics of food literary tropes, images of «kitchen and dining», food as a ritual and reality, the image of paradise in literature in the context of gastronomic associations, etc.