Spilling the beans : eating, cooking, reading and writing in British women's fiction, 1770-1830 /

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 b...

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Main Author: Moss, Sarah
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester : New York : Manchester University Press, 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.
Physical Description:202 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-201) and index.
ISBN:9780719076510
071907651X