Food and Femininity in Twentieth-Century British Women''s Fiction

Zusatztext '... a solid and engaging approach towards locating a more holistic union of mind and body in British women's fiction.' Woolf Studies Annual 'In her analysis of these three contemporary female figures! Adolph cements her overall assertion and nicely dovetails not only the diverse theories that she draws upon but also the diverse set of primary texts that she selected.' Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature Informationen zum Autor Andrea Adolph is associate professor of English and coordinator of service-learning at Kent State University-Stark Campus, USA. Klappentext Examining female characters in Barbara Pym, Angela Carter, Helen Dunmore, Helen Fielding, and Rachel Cusk, Andrea Adolph focuses on how women's relationships to food are used to locate women's embodiment within the everyday and reveal the writers resistance to the traditional mind-body duality. Periodicals, housekeeping and cooking manuals, and other cultural artifacts inform Adolph's study of how women's social and cultural roles are intricately connected to issues of food and food consumption. Zusammenfassung An 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. It focuses on how women's relationships to food (cooking, eating, and serving) are used to locate women's embodiment within the everyday. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface, Andrea Adolph; Long Division: Surpassing Mind/Body Duality, Andrea Adolph; Chapter 1 Regimentation of the Private: Hunting Down “Matter out of Place”, Andrea Adolph; Chapter 2 And the War Taketh Away: Female Embodiment and Sexual Excess in the Era of Austerity, Andrea Adolph; Chapter 3 Body as Text, Body in Text: Reader Response and the Consuming Body, Andrea Adolph; Chapter 4 Whole Numbers, Strange Remainders, Andrea Adolph;

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Adolph, Adolph Andrea
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2009
• EAN: 9780754667346
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-6734-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Food & society, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, Cultural studies: food and society