| Description |
x, 257 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: scenes of the apple: appetite, desire, writing / Tamar Heller, Patricia Moran -- Good and plenty: Queen Victoria figures the imperial body / Adrienne Munich -- Ingestion, contagion, seduction: Victorian metaphors of reading / Pamela K. Gilbert -- Consuming images: women, hunger, and the vote / Linda Schlossberg -- "Courage of her appetites": the ambivalent grotesque in Ellen Glasgow's Romantic comedians / Debra Beilke -- "Death is a skipped meal compared to this": food and hunger in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Ann Folwell Stanford -- "There is no God who can keep us from tasting": good cannibalism in Helene Cixous's The book of Promethea / Chris Foss -- "I cannot eat my words but I do": food, body, and word in the novels of Jeanette Winterson / Suzanne Keen -- Rewriting the hysteric as anorexic in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous condition / Sue Thomas -- Latin American women writers' novel recipes and Laura Esquival's Like water for chocolate / Janice A. Jaffe -- "Sinkside, stoveside, personal perspective": female authority and kitchen space in contemporary women's writing / Patricia Moran. |
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Women in literature.
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Human body in literature.
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Food in literature.
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Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- History -- 19th century.
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Women and literature -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Heller, Tamar, 1959-
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Moran, Patricia (Patricia L.)
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| ISBN |
0791457842 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780791457849 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0791457834 (alk. paper) |
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9780791457832 (alk. paper) |
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