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Food, consumption, and the body in contemporary women's fiction /

Main Author: Sceats, Sarah.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press, New York :
Subjects:
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Food in literature.
Women and literature > History > 20th century. > Great Britain
English fiction > History and criticism. > 20th century
Consumption (Economics) in literature.
Eating disorders in literature.
Human body in literature.
Food habits in literature.
Gastronomy in literature.
English fiction.
Women and literature.
English fiction > Women authors > History and crit.
Alimentation dans la littérature.
Femmes et littérature > Histoire > 20e siècle. > Grande-Bretagne
Roman anglais > Histoire et critique. > 20e siècle
Consommation (Économie politique) dans la littérature.
Comportement alimentaire, Troubles du, dans la littérature.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
Habitudes alimentaires dans la littérature.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction > Women authors.
Great Britain.
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Table of Contents:
  • The food of love; mothering, feeding, eating, and desire
  • Cannibalism and Carter: fantasies of omnipotence
  • Eating, starving and the body: Doris Lessing and others
  • Sharp appetites: Margaret Atwood's consuming politics
  • Food and manners: Roberts and Ellis
  • Social eating: identity, communion and difference.

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