Spilling the beans : eating, cooking, reading and writing in British women's fiction, 1770-1830 /
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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Manchester :
New York : Manchester University Press
2009.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt155jcsm |
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.