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- catalog abstract ""In most cultures, women are in charge of meals and the rituals and customs surrounding meals. Writing The Meal explores the importance of dinners and other meals in fiction by Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, and other women writing at the turn of the twentieth century. Diane McGree 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12085280.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""In most cultures, women are in charge of meals and the rituals and customs surrounding meals. Writing The Meal explores the importance of dinners and other meals in fiction by Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, and other women writing at the turn of the twentieth century. Diane McGree 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: 'A Time to Eat' -- Hors d'Oeuvres: Food, Culture, and Language -- The Angel in the Kitchen: Early Twentieth-Century Trends in Dining -- In with the In-Crowd: Edith Wharton and the Dinner Tables of Old New York -- Manners and Social Change -- Rituals of Dinner in The Age of Innocence -- The Art of Being an Honoured Guest: The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country -- 'Hungry Roaming': Dinners and Non-Dinners in the Stories of Katherine Mansfield -- Homelessness and Hunger -- 'Ghosts of Saucepans and Primus Stoveses' -- Through the Dining-Room Window: Perspectives of the Hostess in the Work of Mansfield and Woolf -- Behind the Scenes in the Kitchen -- Women's Domestic Space in Mansfield's Stories -- Mrs Dalloway's Party, Mrs Ramsay's Dinner -- The Art of Domesticity -- Creativity and Meals -- A Domestic Language -- The Structure of Dinners in The Awakening -- The Artist's Vision.".
- catalog extent "viii, 221 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0802035418 (bound) :".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Toronto : University of Toronto Press,".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries".
- catalog subject "823/.91209355 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American fiction Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904 Knowledge Manners and customs.".
- catalog subject "Dinners and dining in literature.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Food habits in literature.".
- catalog subject "Food in literature.".
- catalog subject "Gastronomy in literature.".
- catalog subject "Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 Knowledge Manners and customs.".
- catalog subject "PR888.F65 M37 2001".
- catalog subject "Repas dans la littérature.".
- catalog subject "Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 Knowledge Manners and customs.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature English-speaking countries History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 Knowledge Manners and customs.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: 'A Time to Eat' -- Hors d'Oeuvres: Food, Culture, and Language -- The Angel in the Kitchen: Early Twentieth-Century Trends in Dining -- In with the In-Crowd: Edith Wharton and the Dinner Tables of Old New York -- Manners and Social Change -- Rituals of Dinner in The Age of Innocence -- The Art of Being an Honoured Guest: The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country -- 'Hungry Roaming': Dinners and Non-Dinners in the Stories of Katherine Mansfield -- Homelessness and Hunger -- 'Ghosts of Saucepans and Primus Stoveses' -- Through the Dining-Room Window: Perspectives of the Hostess in the Work of Mansfield and Woolf -- Behind the Scenes in the Kitchen -- Women's Domestic Space in Mansfield's Stories -- Mrs Dalloway's Party, Mrs Ramsay's Dinner -- The Art of Domesticity -- Creativity and Meals -- A Domestic Language -- The Structure of Dinners in The Awakening -- The Artist's Vision.".
- catalog title "Writing the meal : dinner in the fiction of early twentieth-century women writers / Diane McGee.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".