Spilling the beans : eating, cooking, reading and writing in British women's fiction, 1770-1830 / Sa...
Spilling the beans : eating, cooking, reading and writing in British women's fiction, 1770-1830 / Sa...
Spilling the beans : eating, cooking, reading and writing in British women's fiction, 1770-1830 / Sarah Moss.
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Publisher
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2009.
Date
2009.
Call Numbers
G 2013/6513
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Language
English
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Physical content
202 p. ; 23 cm.
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 ide...
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Publisher
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2009.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2009.
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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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Spilling the beans : eating, cooking, reading and writing in British women's fiction, 1770-1830 / Sarah Moss.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-201) and index.
State Reference Library copy: transferred from REF N823.60935/2.
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G 2013/6513
Record Identifier
74VM8QX8B7ey
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM8QX8B7ey
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ISBN
071907651X
9780719076510
DDC
823.6093564
MMS ID
991000251069702626
