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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b11850145.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-209) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "viii, 213 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521661536".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "823/.91409355 21".
- catalog subject "Consumption (Economics) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Eating disorders in literature.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English fiction Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Food habits in literature.".
- catalog subject "Food in literature.".
- catalog subject "Gastronomy in literature.".
- catalog subject "Human body in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR888.F65 S34 2000".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Great Britain History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Food, consumption and the body in contemporary women's fiction / Sarah Sceats.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".