Spilling the beans : eating, cooking, reading and writing in British women's fiction, 1770-1830 / Sarah Moss.

  • Moss, Sarah.
Date:
2009
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Publication/Creation

Manchester : New York : Manchester University Press, 2009.

Physical description

202 pages ; 23 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-201) and index.

Contents

Eating her words: the politics of commensality in Frances Burney's fiction and letters -- The maternal aliment: feeding daughters in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft -- The bill of fare: the politics of food in Maria Edgeworth's children's fiction -- Eating for Britain: food, family and national identity in Susan Ferrier's fiction -- Afterword.

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    History of Medicine
    DFXP.AI.AA7-8
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ISBN

  • 9780719076510
  • 071907651X