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



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Autore: Moss Sarah Visualizza persona
Titolo: Spilling the beans : eating, cooking, reading and writing in British women's fiction, 1770-1830 / / Sarah Moss Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78170-271-3
1-84779-447-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808310203321
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