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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462142803321

Titolo

Scenes of the apple [[electronic resource] ] : food and the female body in nineteenth- and twentieth-century women's writing / / edited by Tamar Heller and Patricia Moran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003

ISBN

0-7914-8652-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory

Altri autori (Persone)

HellerTamar <1959->

MoranPatricia (Patricia L.)

Disciplina

809/.93352042

Soggetti

Women in literature

Human body in literature

Food in literature

Literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Literature, Modern - 19th century - History and criticism

Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Scenes of the Apple""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction: Scenes of the Apple: Appetite, Desire, Writing""; ""Part 1: Appetite and Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Cultural Politics""; ""2. Good and Plenty: Queen Victoria Figures the Imperial Body""; ""3. Ingestion, Contagion, Seduction: Victorian Metaphors of Reading""; ""4. Consuming Images: Women, Hunger, and the Vote""; ""Part 2: Grotesque, Ghostly, and Cannibalistic Hunger in Twentieth-Century Texts""

""10. Latin American Women Writers� Novel Recipes and Laura Esquivel�s Like Water for Chocolate""""11. “A Sinkside, Stoveside, Personal Perspective�: Female Authority and Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women�s Writing""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""