Title: Writing the meal
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.
Subjects: American fiction, Dinners and dining in literature, English fiction, Food habits in literature, Food in literature, Gastronomy in literature, History, History and criticism, Knowledge, Manners and customs, Women and literature, Women authors, Wharton, edith, 1862-1937, Mansfield, katherine, 1888-1923, Woolf, virginia, 1882-1941, Chopin, kate, 1851-1904, Dinners and dining, Criticism and interpretation
Places: English-speaking countries
People: Edith Wharton (1862-1937), Kate Chopin (1851-1904), Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Time periods: 20th century