Food, consumption, and the body in contemporary women's fiction /
[Book]
Sarah Sceats.
Cambridge ;
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
1 online resource (viii, 213 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-209) and index.
The food of love; mothering, feeding, eating, and desire -- Cannibalism and Carter: fantasies of omnipotence -- Eating, starving and the body: Doris Lessing and others -- Sharp appetites: Margaret Atwood's consuming politics -- Food and manners: Roberts and Ellis -- Social eating: identity, communion and difference.
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"This study explores the subtle and complex significance of food and eating in contemporary women's fiction. Sarah Sceats reveals how preoccupations with food, its consumption and the body are central to the work of writers such as Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood and others. Through close analysis of their fiction, Sceats examines the multiple metaphors associated with these themes, making powerful connections between food and love, motherhood, sexual desire, self-identity and social behaviour."--Jacket.
eBook Library
EBL147322
Food, consumption, and the body in contemporary women's fiction.
0521661536
Consumption (Economics) in literature.
Eating disorders in literature.
English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
English fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Food habits in literature.
Food in literature.
Gastronomy in literature.
Human body in literature.
Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.
Alimentation dans la littérature.
Comportement alimentaire, Troubles du, dans la littérature.
Consommation (Économie politique) dans la littérature.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
Écrits de femmes anglais-- Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature-- Grande-Bretagne-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.
Habitudes alimentaires dans la littérature.
Roman anglais-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.