TY - BOOK AU - Moss,Sarah ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Spilling the beans: eating, cooking, reading and writing in British women's fiction, 1770-1830 SN - 071907651X AV - PR6113.O88 S65 2009eb U1 - 823.6093564 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Manchester, U.K., New York, N.Y. PB - Manchester University Press KW - English fiction KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century KW - Women authors KW - Food in literature KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries N2 - 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 UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/alfaisal/Doc?id=10627271 ER -