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Scenes of the apple : food and the female body in nineteenth- and twentieth-century women's writing / edited by Tamar Heller and Patricia Moran.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in feminist criticism and theoryPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.Description: x, 257 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0791457842 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Contents:
Introduction: scenes of the apple: appetite, desire, writing / Tamar Heller, Patricia Moran -- Good and plenty: Queen Victoria figures the imperial body / Adrienne Munich -- Ingestion, contagion, seduction: Victorian metaphors of reading / Pamela K. Gilbert -- Consuming images: women, hunger, and the vote / Linda Schlossberg -- "The courage of her appetites": the ambivalent grotesque in Ellen Glasgow's Romantic comedians / Debra Beilke -- "Death is a skipped meal compared to this": food and hunger in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Ann Folwell Stanford --"There is no God who can keep us from tasting": good cannibalism in Hélène Cixous's The book of Promethea / Chris Foss -- "I cannot eat my words but I do": food, body, and word in the novels of Jeanette Winterson / Suzanne Keen -- Rewriting the hysteric as anorexic in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous condition / Sue Thomas -- Latin American women writers' novel recipes and Laura Esquival's Like water for chocolate / Janice A. Jaffe -- "A sinkside, stoveside, personal perspective": female authority and kitchen space in contemporary women's writing / Patricia Moran.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks PN56.5.W64S28 2003 1 Available 33710000980438

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: scenes of the apple: appetite, desire, writing / Tamar Heller, Patricia Moran -- Good and plenty: Queen Victoria figures the imperial body / Adrienne Munich -- Ingestion, contagion, seduction: Victorian metaphors of reading / Pamela K. Gilbert -- Consuming images: women, hunger, and the vote / Linda Schlossberg -- "The courage of her appetites": the ambivalent grotesque in Ellen Glasgow's Romantic comedians / Debra Beilke -- "Death is a skipped meal compared to this": food and hunger in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Ann Folwell Stanford --"There is no God who can keep us from tasting": good cannibalism in Hélène Cixous's The book of Promethea / Chris Foss -- "I cannot eat my words but I do": food, body, and word in the novels of Jeanette Winterson / Suzanne Keen -- Rewriting the hysteric as anorexic in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous condition / Sue Thomas -- Latin American women writers' novel recipes and Laura Esquival's Like water for chocolate / Janice A. Jaffe -- "A sinkside, stoveside, personal perspective": female authority and kitchen space in contemporary women's writing / Patricia Moran.