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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heller, Tamar, 1959-

Morán, Patricia.

Series:

SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in literature.

Human body in literature.

Food in literature.

Literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Literature.

Literature, Modern--19th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature--Women authors.

Physical Description:

x, 257 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2003]

Summary:

A volume in the SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory Michelle A. Masse, editor

Contents:

1 Introduction: Scenes of the Apple: Appetite, Desire, Writing / Tamar Heller, Patricia Moran 1

Part 1 Appetite and Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Cultural Politics

2 Good and Plenty: Queen Victoria Figures the Imperial Body / Adrienne Munich 45

3 Ingestion, Contagion, Seduction: Victorian Metaphors of Reading / Pamela K. Gilbert 65

4 Consuming Images: Women, Hunger, and the Vote / Linda Schlossberg 87

Part 2 Grotesque, Ghostly, and Cannibalistic Hunger in Twentieth-Century Texts

5 "The Courage of Her Appetites": The Ambivalent Grotesque in Ellen Glasgow's Romantic Comedians / Debra Beilke 109

6 "Death Is a Skipped Meal Compared to This": Food and Hunger in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Ann Folwell Stanford 129

7 "There Is No God Who Can Keep Us from Tasting": Good Cannibalism in Helene Cixous's The Book of Promethea / Chris Foss 149

8 "I Cannot Eat My Words but I Do": Food, Body, and Word in the Novels of Jeanette Winterson / Suzanne Keen 167

Part 3 Food and Cooking: Patriarchal, Colonial, Familial Structures

9 Rewriting the Hysteric as Anorexic in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions / Sue Thomas 183

10 Latin American Women Writers' Novel Recipes and Laura Esquival's Like Water for Chocolate / Janice A. Jaffe 199

11 "A Sinkside, Stoveside, Personal Perspective": Female Authority and Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women's Writing / Patricia Moran 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791457834

0791457842

OCLC:

50670357