Spilling the beans Eating, cooking, reading and writing in British women's fiction, 1770-1830.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2009.
- 1 online resource (209 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Eating her words: The politics of commensality inFrances Burney's fiction and letters; 2. The maternal aliment: Feeding daughters in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft; 3. The bill of fare: The politics of food in Maria Edgeworth's children's fiction; 4. Eating for Britain Food, family and national identity in Susan Ferrier's fiction; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.
The study of food in literature complicates established critical positions. Both a libidinal pleasure and the ultimate commodity, food in fiction can represent sex as well as money and brings the body and the marketplace together in ways that are sometimes obvious and sometimes unsettling. *Spilling the Beans* explores these relations in the context of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century women?s fiction, where concerns about bodily, economic and intellectual productivity and consumption power decades of novels, conduct books and popular medicine. The introduction suggests ways in which.
9781847794475
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism. Food in literature.