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UNINA9910148955703321 |
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Wilson Bee |
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First Bite: How We Learn to Eat |
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Fortnum we each have to figure it out for ourselves. From childhood onwards, we learn how big a portion is and how sweet is too sweet. We learn to love broccoli - or not. But how does this happen? What are the origins of taste? And once we acquire our food habits, can we ever change them for the better?In First Bite, award-winning food writer Bee Wilson draws on the latest research from food psychologists, neuroscientists and nutritionists to reveal how our food habits are shaped by a whole host of factors: family and culture, memory and gender, hunger and love. She looks at the effects siblings can have on eating choices and the social pressures to eat according to sex. Bee introduces us to people who can only eat food of a certain colour; toddlers who will eat nothing but hot dogs; doctors who have found radical new ways to help children eat vegetables. First Bite also looks at how people eat in different parts of the world: we see how grandparents in China overfeed their grandchildren, and how Japan came to adopt such a healthy diet (it wasn't always so).The way we learn to eat holds the key to why food has gone so disastrously wrong for so many people. But Bee Wilson also shows that both adults and children have immense potential for learning new, healthy eating habits. An exploration of the extraordinary and surprising origins of our taste and eating habits, First Bite explains how we can change our palates to lead healthier, happier lives. |
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UNINA9910793467503321 |
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Civale Susan |
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Romantic women's life writing : reputation and afterlife / / Susan Civale |
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Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2019 |
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1-5261-0128-9 |
1-5261-0127-0 |
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1 online resource (301 pages) |
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English literature - Women authors - History and cricitism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 'Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman': Frances Burney's Diary (1842-46) and the reputation of women's life writing -- 'A man in love': Revealing the unseen Mary Wollstonecraft -- 'Beyond the power of utterance': Reading the gaps in Mary Robinson's Memoirs (1801) -- 'By a happy genius, I overcame all these troubles': Mary Hays and the struggle for self-representation -- Coda: Virginia Woolf's Common reader essays and the legacy of women's life writing -- Select bibliography -- Index. |
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This book explores how the publication of women's life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century. It provides case studies of Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson and Mary Hays, four writers whose names were caught up in debates about the moral and literary respectability of publishing the 'private'. Focusing on gender, genre and authorship, this study examines key works of life writing by and about these women, and the reception of these texts. It argues for the importance of life writing--a crucial site of affective and imaginative identification--in shaping authorial reputation and afterlife. The book ultimately constructs a fuller picture of the literary field in the long nineteenth century and the role of women writers and their life writing within it. |
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