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-

Moran, Patricia (Patricia L.)

Series:

SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing on women's writing of the last two centuries, Scenes of the Apple traces the intricate relationship between food and body image for women. Ranging over a variety of genres, including novels, culinary memoirs, and essays, the contributors explore works by a diverse group of writers, including Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Toni Morrison, Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Jeanette Winterson, as well as such nonliterary documents as discussions of Queen Victoria's appetite and news coverage of suffragettes' hunger strikes. Moreover, in addressing works by Hispanic, African, African American, Jewish, and lesbian writers, the book explodes the myth that only white, privileged, and heterosexual women are concerned with body image, and shows the many cultural contexts in which food and cooking are important in women's literature. Above all, the essays pay tribute to the rich and multiple meanings of food in women's writing as a symbol for all kinds of delightful—and transgressive—desires.

Contents:

""Scenes of the Apple""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction: Scenes of the Apple: Appetite, Desire, Writing""; ""Part 1: Appetite and Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Cultural Politics""; ""2. Good and Plenty: Queen Victoria Figures the Imperial Body""; ""3. Ingestion, Contagion, Seduction: Victorian Metaphors of Reading""; ""4. Consuming Images: Women, Hunger, and the Vote""; ""Part 2: Grotesque, Ghostly, and Cannibalistic Hunger in Twentieth-Century Texts""

""10. Latin American Women Writers� Novel Recipes and Laura Esquivel�s Like Water for Chocolate""""11. “A Sinkside, Stoveside, Personal Perspective�: Female Authority and Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women�s Writing""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-8652-4

OCLC:

923416951