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

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Main Author: Sceats, Sarah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press, New York : 2000.
Subjects:
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Food in literature.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Consumption (Economics) in literature.
Eating disorders in literature.
Human body in literature.
Food habits in literature.
Gastronomy in literature.
Diet in literature.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0511017510
9780511017513
0521661536
9780521661539
0511033494
9780511033490
0511118023
9780511118029
9780511048739
0511048734
0511150865
9780511150869
9780511485381
0511485387
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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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