Spilling the Beans: Eating, Cooking, Reading and Writing in British Women's Fiction, 1770-1830

by Sarah Moss

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719086442
• ISBN13: 9780719086441
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"