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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.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 257 pages :) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents ""Scenes of the Apple""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction: Scenes of the Apple: Appetite, Desire, Writing""; ""Part 1: Appetite and Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Cultural Politics""; ""2. Good and Plenty: Queen Victoria Figures the Imperial Body""; ""3. Ingestion, Contagion, Seduction: Victorian Metaphors of Reading""; ""4. Consuming Images: Women, Hunger, and the Vote""; ""Part 2: Grotesque, Ghostly, and Cannibalistic Hunger in Twentieth-Century Texts""
""5. “The Courage of Her Appetites�: The Ambivalent Grotesque in Ellen Glasgow�s Romantic Comedians""""6. “Death Is a Skipped Meal Compared to This�: Food and Hunger in Toni Morrison�s Beloved""; ""7. “There Is No God Who Can Keep Us from Tasting�: Good Cannibalism in Hél�ne Cixous�s The Book of Promethea""; ""8. “I Cannot Eat My Words but I Do�: Food, Body, and Word in the Novels of Jeanette Winterson""; ""Part 3: Food and Cooking: Patriarchal, Colonial, Familial Structures""; ""9. Rewriting the Hysteric as Anorexic in Tsitsi Dangarembga�s Nervous Conditions""
""10. Latin American Women Writers� Novel Recipes and Laura Esquivel�s Like Water for Chocolate""""11. “A Sinkside, Stoveside, Personal Perspective�: Female Authority and Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women�s Writing""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
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Subject Women in literature.
Women in literature.
Human body in literature.
Human body in literature.
Food in literature.
Food in literature.
Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Literature -- Women authors.
Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Literature, Modern.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 20th century
1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Added Author Heller, Tamar, 1959-
Moran, Patricia (Patricia L.)
Other Form: Print version: Scenes of the apple. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003 (DLC) 2002030971
ISBN 9780791486528 (electronic book)
0791486524 (electronic book)
9780791457849 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0791457842 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0791457834 (alkaline paper)
0791457842 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780791457832