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

• Autore: Moss Sarah
• Pubblicazione: Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, N.Y., : Manchester University Press, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 823.6093564
• Soggetto topico: English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism; English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism; Food in literature
• Soggetto geografico: Englisch
• Soggetto non controllato: Frances Burney; Maria Edgeworth; Mary Wollstonecraft; Susan Ferrier; conduct books; consumption; eating; food; productivity; women's fiction
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 books and popular medicine.
• Titolo autorizzato: Spilling the beans
• ISBN: 1-78170-271-3; 1-84779-447-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808310203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II