Writing the meal
Subtitle: dinner in the fiction of early twentieth-century women writers
By: Diane McGee.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Knowledge -- Manners and customs; Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 -- Knowledge -- Manners and customs; Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Knowledge -- Manners and customs; Chopin, Kate, 1851-1904 -- Knowledge -- Manners and customs; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Food in literature; Gastronomy in literature; Food habits in literature; Dinners and dining in literature; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century
Description: "In most cultures, women are in charge of meals and the rituals and customs surrounding meals. Writing The Meal explores the importance of dinners and other meals in fiction by Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, and other women writing at the turn of the twentieth century.

Diane McGree proposes that the depiction of meals has particular significance and resonance for women writers, and that these presentations of meals reflect larger concerns about women's domestic and public roles in a time of social and cultural change."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-207) and index.