Scenes of the apple : food and the female body in nineteenth- and twentieth-century women's writing / edited by Tamar Heller and Patricia Moran.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Scenes of the apple : appetite, desire, writing / Tamar Heller and Patricia Moran -- Appetite and consumption in nineteenth-century cultural politics. Good and plenty : Queen Victoria figures the imperial body / Adrienne Munich ; Ingestion, contagion, seduction: Victorian metaphors of reading / Pamela K. Gilbert ; Consuming images : Women, hunger, and the vote / Linda Schlossberg -- Grotesque, ghostly, and cannibalistic hunger in twentieth-century texts. "The courage of her appetites" : The ambivalent grotesque in Ellen Glasgow's Romantic Comedians / Debra Beilke ; "Death is a skipped meal compared to this" : Food and hunger in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Ann Folwell Stanford ; "There is no God who can keep us from tasting" : Good cannibalism in Hélène Cixous's The Book of Promethea / Chris Foss ; "I cannot eat my words but I do" : Food, body, and word in the novels of Jeanette Winterson / Suzanne Keen -- Food and cooking : Patriarchal colonial, familial structures. Rewriting the hysteric as anorexic in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions / Sue Thomas ; Latin American women writers' novel recipes and Laura Esquival's LIke Water for Chocolate / Janice A. Jaffe -- "A sinkside, stoveside, personal perspective" : Female authority and kitchen space in comtemporary women's writing / Patricia Moran.

English.

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