Author

Publication

2000 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], England

Language

English

Word Count

53,250 words, Guess

Page Count

213 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number99042109
  • LibraryThing2433329
  • Goodreads1469834

Classifications

  • DDC823/.91409355
  • LCCPR888.F65 S34 2000

Description

"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 and others. 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."--Jacket.

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Other Editions

  • Food, consumption, and the body in contemporary women's fictionCambridge University Press2000-01-01

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