Spilling the beans : eating, cooking, reading and writing in British women's fiction, 1770-1830 /

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The study of food in literature complicates established critical positions. This title explores the relation in the context of late 18th and early 19th century women's fiction, where concerns about bodily, economic and intellectual productivity and consumption power decades of novels, conduct b...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Moss, Sarah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : New York : Manchester University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
1700-1899
Geschichte 1770-1830.
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Food in literature.
Roman anglais > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Aliments dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
English fiction.
English fiction > Women authors.
Frauenliteratur
Nahrungsaufnahme > Motiv
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Eating her words: the politics of commensality in Frances Burney's fiction and letters
  • The maternal aliment: feeding daughters in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft
  • The bill of fare: the politics of food in Maria Edgeworth's children's fiction
  • Eating for Britain: food, family and national identity in Susan Ferrier's fiction
  • Afterword.

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