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  • Contents
  • Introduction: 'A Time to Eat'
  • 1 Hors d'Oeuvres: Food, Culture, and Language
  • 2 The Angel in the Kitchen: Early Twentieth-Century Trends in Dining
  • 3 In with the In-Crowd: Edith Wharton and the Dinner Tables of Old New York
  • Manners and Social Change
  • Rituals of Dinner in The Age of Innocence
  • 4 The Art of Being an Honoured Guest: The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country
  • 5 'Hungry Roaming': Dinners and Non-Dinners in the Stories of Katherine Mansfield
  • Homelessness and Hunger
  • 'Ghosts of Saucepans & Primus Stoveses'
  • 6 Through the Dining-Room Window: Perspectives of the Hostess in the Work of Mansfield and WoolfBehind the Scenes in the Kitchen
  • Women's Domestic Space in Mansfield's Stories
  • Mrs Dalloway's Party, Mrs Ramsay's Dinner
  • 7 The Art of Domesticity
  • Creativity and Meals
  • A Domestic Language
  • The Structure of Dinners in The Awakening
  • The Artist's Vision
  • Conclusion
  • NOTES
  • WORKS CITED
  • WORKS CONSULTED
  • INDEX
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • V