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

ISBN:

9780511017513

9780521661539

9780511033490

9780511118029

9780511048739

9780511150869

Title:

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

Author:

Sceats, Sarah.

Personal Author:

Sceats, Sarah.

Publication Information:

Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 213 pages)

Contents:

The food of love; mothering, feeding, eating, and desire -- Cannibalism and Carter: fantasies of omnipotence -- Eating, starving and the body: Doris Lessing and others -- Sharp appetites: Margaret Atwood's consuming politics -- Food and manners: Roberts and Ellis -- Social eating: identity, communion and difference.

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Subject Term:

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.

Human body in literature.

Food habits in literature.

Gastronomy in literature.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2000

Publication Information:

Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Summary

This study explores the subtle and complex significance of food and eating in the fiction of contemporary women writers. Sarah Sceats' lively analysis demonstrates that food and its consumption are not simply fundamental to life but are inseparable from questions of gender, power and control. Focusing on the work of Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis, she makes powerful connections between food and love, motherhood, sexual desire, self identity and social behavior, and engages with issues as diverse as cannibalism and eating disorders.