Food, consumption, and the body in contemporary women's fiction
By: Sarah Sceats.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Food in literature; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Consumption (Economics) in literature; Eating disorders in literature; Body, Human, in literature; Food habits in literature; Gastronomy in literature
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-209) and index.