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Spilling the beans

by Moss, Sarah.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : Manchester University Press, (Manchester, U.K. ; | New York, N.Y. :) Physical details: 202 p.
Subject(s): English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism. | English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. | English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. | Food in literature. | Electronic books.
Year: 2009
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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.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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