Spilling the Beans: Eating, Cooking, Reading and Writing in British Women's Fiction, 1770–1830 - Hardcover

Moss, Sarah

 
9780719076510: Spilling the Beans: Eating, Cooking, Reading and Writing in British Women's Fiction, 1770–1830
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 071907651X ISBN 13: 9780719076510
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

The study of food in literature complicates established critical positions. Both a libidinal pleasure and the ultimate commodity, food in fiction can represent sex as well as money and brings the body and the marketplace together in ways that are sometimes obvious and sometimes unsettling. Spilling the Beans explores these relations in the context of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century women’s fiction, where concerns about bodily, economic and intellectual productivity and consumption power decades of novels, conduct books and popular medicine.

The introduction suggests ways in which attention to food in these texts might complicate recent developments in literary theory and criticism, while the body of the book is devoted to close readings of novels and children’s stories by Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth and Susan Ferrier.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students of eighteenth and nineteenth century literature, women’s studies and material culture.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sarah Moss is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent

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The study of food in literature complicates established critical positions. Both a libidinal pleasure and the ultimate commodity, food in fiction can represent sex as well as money and brings the body and the marketplace together in ways that are sometimes obvious and sometimes unsettling. Spilling the Beans explores these relations in the context of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century women's fiction, where concerns about bodily, economic and intellectual productivity and consumption power decades of novels, conduct books and popular medicine.

The introduction suggests ways in which attention to food in these texts might complicate recent developments in literary theory and criticism, while the body of the book is devoted to close readings of novels and children's stories by Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth and Susan Ferrier.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students of eighteenth and nineteenth century literature, women's studies and material culture.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
071907651X
ISBN 13 
9780719076510
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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