Spilling the beans [electronic resource] : eating, cooking, reading and writing in British women's fiction, 1770-1830 / Sarah Moss.

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Moss, Sarah

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ebrary, Inc

Publication details: Manchester, U.K. ; New York, N.Y. : Manchester University Press, 2009.Description: 202 pISBN:

071907651X
9780719076510
9781847794475 (e-book)

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823.6093564 22

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PR6113.O88 S65 2009eb

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Contents:

Eating her words: the politics of commensality in Frances Burney's fiction and letters -- The maternal aliment: feeding daughters in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft -- The bill of fare: the politics of food in Maria Edgeworth's children's fiction -- Eating for Britain: food, family and national identity in Susan Ferrier's fiction -- Afterword.

Summary: The study of food in literature complicates established critical positions. This title explores the relation in the context of late 18th and early 19th century women's fiction, where concerns about bodily, economic and intellectual productivity and consumption power decades of novels, conduct books and popular medicine.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The study of food in literature complicates established critical positions. This title explores the relation in the context of late 18th and early 19th century women's fiction, where concerns about bodily, economic and intellectual productivity and consumption power decades of novels, conduct books and popular medicine.

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