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Author McGee, Diane E., 1947-

Title Writing the meal : dinner in the fiction of early twentieth-century women writers / Diane McGee.

Publication Info. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2002.
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 221 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents ""Contents""; ""Introduction: 'A Time to Eat'""; ""1 Hors d'Oeuvres: Food, Culture, and Language""; ""2 The Angel in the Kitchen: Early Twentieth-Century Trends in Dining""; ""3 In with the In-Crowd: Edith Wharton and the Dinner Tables of Old New York""; ""Manners and Social Change""; ""Rituals of Dinner in The Age of Innocence""; ""4 The Art of Being an Honoured Guest: The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country""; ""5 'Hungry Roaming': Dinners and Non-Dinners in the Stories of Katherine Mansfield""; ""Homelessness and Hunger""; ""'Ghosts of Saucepans & Primus Stoveses'""
""6 Through the Dining-Room Window: Perspectives of the Hostess in the Work of Mansfield and Woolf""""Behind the Scenes in the Kitchen""; ""Women's Domestic Space in Mansfield's Stories""; ""Mrs Dalloway's Party, Mrs Ramsay's Dinner""; ""7 The Art of Domesticity""; ""Creativity and Meals""; ""A Domestic Language""; ""The Structure of Dinners in The Awakening""; ""The Artist's Vision""; ""Conclusion""; ""NOTES""; ""WORKS CITED""; ""WORKS CONSULTED""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""
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Subject Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
Criticism and interpretation.
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904.
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904.
Chopin, Kate, 1851-1904.
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Critique et interprétation.
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 -- Critique et interprétation.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Critique et interprétation.
Chopin, Kate, 1851-1904 -- Critique et interprétation.
Dinners and dining in literature.
Dinners and dining in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: McGee, Diane E. Writing the meal. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2002, ©2001 9780802085764 (OCoLC)51802104
ISBN 9781442683723 (electronic book)
1442683724 (electronic book)
0802085768
9780802085764