Title Food, consumption, and the body in contemporary women's fiction / Sarah Sceats

Edition First paperback edition Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Description viii, 213 pages ; 23 cm Contents Introduction -- Ch. 1. The food of love : mothering, feeding, eating and desire -- Ch. 2. Cannibalism and Carter : fantasies of omnipotence -- Ch. 3. Eating, starving and the body : Doris Lessing and others -- Ch. 4. Sharp appetites : Margaret Atwood's consuming politics -- Ch. 5. Food and manners : Roberts and Ellis -- Ch. 6. Social eating : identity, communion and difference Notes Previously published by Cambridge University Press in hardcover: 2000 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-209) and index Subject Body image in literature. Human body in literature. Consumption (Economics) in literature. Eating disorders in literature. English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Food habits in literature. English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Food in literature. Gastronomy in literature. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. LC no. 2005279082 ISBN 0521604559 (paperback) 0521661536

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