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Title:

Scenes of the apple : food and the female body in nineteenth- and twentieth-century women's writing / edited by Tamar Heller and Patricia Moran.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

x, 257 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Women in literature.
Body, Human, in literature.
Food in literature.
Literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Literature, Modern--19th century--History and criticism.
Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
Women and literature--History--19th century.
Women and literature--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Heller, Tamar, 1959-
Moran, Patricia (Patricia L.)

Notes:

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 -- "The 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 Hélène 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 -- "A sinkside, stoveside, personal perspective": female authority and kitchen space in contemporary women's writing / Patricia Moran.

Series:

SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory

ISBN:

9780791457849 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0791457842 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780791457832 (alk. paper)
0791457834 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50670357

LCCN:

2002030971

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)