Food And Femininity In Twentieth Century British Women S Fiction

Author : Andrea Adolph
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317134596

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Food and Femininity in Twentieth-Century British Women's Fiction by Andrea Adolph Pdf

In her feminist intervention into the ways in which British women novelists explore and challenge the limitations of the mind-body binary historically linked to constructions of femininity, Andrea Adolph examines female characters in novels by Barbara Pym, Angela Carter, Helen Dunmore, Helen Fielding, and Rachel Cusk. Adolph focuses on how women's relationships to food (cooking, eating, serving) are used to locate women's embodiment within the everyday and also reveal the writers' commitment to portraying a unified female subject. For example, using food and food consumption as a lens highlights how women writers have used food as a trope that illustrates the interconnectedness of sex and gender with issues of sexuality, social class, and subjectivity-all aspects that fall along a continuum of experience in which the intellect and the physical body are mutually complicit. Historically grounded in representations of women in periodicals, housekeeping and cooking manuals, and health and beauty books, Adolph's theoretically informed study complicates our understanding of how women's social and cultural roles are intricately connected to issues of food and food consumption.

Author : Diane E. McGee
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802085768

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Writing the Meal by Diane E. McGee Pdf

The author 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.

Author : J. Michelle Coghlan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781108427364

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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food by J. Michelle Coghlan Pdf

This Companion rethinks food in literature from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to contemporary food blogs, and recovers cookbooks as literary texts.

Author : Nieves Pascual Soler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319709239

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Food and Masculinity in Contemporary Autobiographies by Nieves Pascual Soler Pdf

This book is concerned with food autobiographies written by men from the 1980s to the present. It concentrates on how food has transformed autobiographical narratives and how these define the ways men eat and cook nowadays. After presenting a historical overview of the place of food within men ́s autobiography, this volume analyzes the reasons for our present interest in food and the proliferation of life narratives focused on cooking. Then it centers around the identities that male chefs are taking on in the writing of their lives and the generic models they use: the heroic, the criminal and the hunting autobiographical scripts. This study gives evidence that autobiographies are crucial in the redefinition of the new masculinities emerging in the kitchen. It will appeal to readers interested in Food Studies, Autobiographical Studies, Men's Studies and American Literature and Culture.

Author : Jeff Birkenstein,Robert C. Hauhart
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820366746

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Significant Food by Jeff Birkenstein,Robert C. Hauhart Pdf

"Significant Food is a collaborative work of textual analysis and criticism that chews on the role and prominence of food in American literature. The volume offers close readings of many well-known, and some less well-known, examples of American writing, as studied through the food culture sensibilities of a well-stocked cupboard of contributors who offer their analyses for public consumption. Editors Jeff Birkenstein and Robert C. Hauhart find that literary criticism has focused on the role food plays in literary production to a greater extent than recognized at first glance and that its role has become increasingly common only in the last two decades. Still, while there is critical commentary regarding authors' use of food across the expanse of American literature, there has been a lack of a unifying critical theories to guide these analyses. Birkenstein and Hauhart offer the theory of "significant food"-a method that asks literary critics to evaluate and assess the extent, nature, and role that food plays in literary production. When food and "food moments" are used intensively and "significantly" within the drama, memoir, poem, novel, short story, or other writing, then one can say that it has achieved a status that makes it indispensable to the work at hand"--

Author : Charlotte Boyce,Joan Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135022075

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A History of Food in Literature by Charlotte Boyce,Joan Fitzpatrick Pdf

When novels, plays and poems refer to food, they are often doing much more than we might think. Recent critical thinking suggests that depictions of food in literary works can help to explain the complex relationship between the body, subjectivity and social structures. A History of Food in Literature provides a clear and comprehensive overview of significant episodes of food and its consumption in major canonical literary works from the medieval period to the twenty-first century. This volume contextualises these works with reference to pertinent historical and cultural materials such as cookery books, diaries and guides to good health, in order to engage with the critical debate on food and literature and how ideas of food have developed over the centuries. Organised chronologically and examining certain key writers from every period, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens, this book's enlightening critical analysis makes it relevant for anyone interested in the study of food and literature.

Author : Sarah Moss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 1781702713

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Spilling the Beans by Sarah Moss Pdf

The study of food in literature complicates established critical positions. This title explores the relation in the context of late 18th and early 19th century women's fiction, where concerns about bodily, economic and intellectual productivity and consumption power decades of novels, conduct books and popular medicine.

Author : Tamar Heller,Patricia Moran
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791486528

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Scenes of the Apple by Tamar Heller,Patricia Moran Pdf

Focusing on women's writing of the last two centuries, Scenes of the Apple traces the intricate relationship between food and body image for women. Ranging over a variety of genres, including novels, culinary memoirs, and essays, the contributors explore works by a diverse group of writers, including Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Toni Morrison, Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Jeanette Winterson, as well as such nonliterary documents as discussions of Queen Victoria's appetite and news coverage of suffragettes' hunger strikes. Moreover, in addressing works by Hispanic, African, African American, Jewish, and lesbian writers, the book explodes the myth that only white, privileged, and heterosexual women are concerned with body image, and shows the many cultural contexts in which food and cooking are important in women's literature. Above all, the essays pay tribute to the rich and multiple meanings of food in women's writing as a symbol for all kinds of delightful—and transgressive—desires.

Author : Silvia Baucekova
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443881241

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Dining Room Detectives by Silvia Baucekova Pdf

In the structuralist understanding as proposed by John G. Cawelti, a classical detective novel is defined as a formula which contains prescribed elements and develops in a predefined, ritualistic manner. When described in this way, the crime fiction formula very closely resembles a recipe: when one cooks, they also add prescribed ingredients in a predefined way in order to produce the final dish. This surprising parallel serves as the starting point for this book’s analysis of classical detective novels by Agatha Christie. Here, a structuralist approach to Golden Age crime fiction is complemented by methodology developed in the field of food studies in order to demonstrate the twofold role that food plays in Christie’s novels: namely, its function as an element of the formula – a literary device – but also as a cultural sign. Christie employed food on various different levels of her stories in order to portray characters, construct plots, and depict settings. What is more, incorporating domesticity and food in her novels helped her fundamentally alter the rigid conventions of the crime fiction genre as it developed in the nineteenth century, and enabled her to successfully introduce the character of the female detective and to feminise the detective novel as such.

Author : Sarah Moss
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719086442

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Spilling the Beans by Sarah Moss Pdf

The study of food in literature complicates established critical positions. Both a libidinal pleasure and the ultimate commodity, food in fiction can represent sex as well as money and brings the body and the marketplace together in ways that are sometimes obvious and sometimes unsettling. Spilling the Beans explores these relations in the context of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century women’s fiction, where concerns about bodily, economic, and intellectual productivity and consumption power decades of novels, conduct books, and popular medicine. The introduction suggests ways in which attention to food in these texts might complicate recent developments in literary theory and criticism, while the body of the book is devoted to close readings of novels and children’s stories by Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth, and Susan Ferrier. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of eighteenth and nineteenth century literature, women’s studies, and material culture.

Author : Diane E. McGee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : American fiction
ISBN : OCLC:613979968

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Writing the Meal by Diane E. McGee Pdf

Author : Sarah Sceats
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139426619

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Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction by Sarah Sceats Pdf

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, Michèle Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis. 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. The activities surrounding food and its consumption (or non-consumption) embrace both the most intimate and the most thoroughly public aspects of our lives. The book draws on psychoanalytical, feminist and sociological theory to engage with a diverse range of issues, including chapters on cannibalism and eating disorders. This lively study demonstrates that feeding and eating are not simply fundamental to life but are inseparable from questions of gender, power and control.

Author : M. Joannou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137292179

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945 by M. Joannou Pdf

Featuring sixteen contributions from recognized authorities in their respective fields, this superb new mapping of women's writing ranges from feminine middlebrow novels to Virginia Woolf's modernist aesthetics, from women's literary journalism to crime fiction, and from West End drama to the literature of Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

Author : Sarah Moss
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847796950

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Spilling the beans by Sarah Moss Pdf

The study of food in literature complicates established critical positions. Both a libidinal pleasure and the ultimate commodity, food in fiction can represent sex as well as money and brings the body and the marketplace together in ways that are sometimes obvious and sometimes unsettling. Spilling the Beans explores these relations in the context of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century women’s fiction, where concerns about bodily, economic and intellectual productivity and consumption power decades of novels, conduct books and popular medicine. The introduction suggests ways in which attention to food in these texts might complicate recent developments in literary theory and criticism, while the body of the book is devoted to close readings of novels and children’s stories by Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth and Susan Ferrier. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of eighteenth and nineteenth century literature, women’s studies and material culture.

Author : Nick Turner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441120946

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Post-War British Women Novelists and the Canon by Nick Turner Pdf

With the increasing number of books on contemporary fiction, there is a need for a work that examines whom we value, and why. These questions lie at the heart of this book which, by focusing on four novelists, literary and popular, interrogates the canon over the last fifty years. The argument unfolds to demonstrate that academic trends increasingly control canonicity, as do the demands of genre, the increasing commercialisation of literature, and the power of the literary prize. Turner argues that literary excellence, demonstrated by style and imaginative power, is often missing in many works that have become modern classics and makes a case for the value of the 'universal' in literature. Written in a jargon-free style, with reference to many supporting writers, the book raises a number of significant cultural questions about the arts, fashions and literary reputations, of interest to readers in contemporary literary studies.