| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 213 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-209) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"This study explores the subtle and complex significance of food and eating in contemporary women's fiction. Sarah Sceats reveals how preoccupations with food, its consumption and the body are central to the work of writers such as Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood and others. Through close analysis of their fiction, Sceats examines the multiple metaphors associated with these themes, making powerful connections between food and love, motherhood, sexual desire, self-identity and social behaviour."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- Women authors. |
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Food in literature.
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Food in literature. |
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
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Consumption (Economics) in literature.
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Consumption (Economics) in literature. |
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Eating disorders in literature.
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Eating disorders in literature. |
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Human body in literature.
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Human body in literature. |
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Food habits in literature.
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Food habits in literature. |
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Gastronomy in literature.
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Gastronomy in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sceats, Sarah. Food, consumption, and the body in contemporary women's fiction. Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521661536 (DLC) 99042109 (OCoLC)42291258 |
| ISBN |
0511017510 (electronic book) |
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9780511017513 (electronic book) |
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0521661536 |
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9780521661539 |
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0511033494 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511033490 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511118023 (electronic book) |
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9780511118029 (electronic book) |
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9780511048739 (electronic book) |
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0511048734 (electronic book) |
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0511150865 |
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9780511150869 |
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