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Spilling the beans : eating, cooking, reading and writing in British women's fiction, 1770-1830 / Sarah Moss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moss, Sarah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Food in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (202 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78170-271-3
- 1-84779-447-5
- OCLC:
- 818847491
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