Writing the meal : dinner in the fiction of early twentieth-century women writers / Diane McGee.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents -- Introduction: 'A Time to Eat' -- 1 Hors d'Oeuvres: Food, Culture, and Language -- 2 The Angel in the Kitchen: Early Twentieth-Century Trends in Dining -- 3 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 -- 4 The Art of Being an Honoured Guest: The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country -- 5 'Hungry Roaming': Dinners and Non-Dinners in the Stories of Katherine Mansfield -- Homelessness and Hunger -- 'Ghosts of Saucepans & Primus Stoveses'

6 Through the Dining-Room Window: Perspectives of the Hostess in the Work of Mansfield and WoolfBehind the Scenes in the Kitchen -- Women's Domestic Space in Mansfield's Stories -- Mrs Dalloway's Party, Mrs Ramsay's Dinner -- 7 The Art of Domesticity -- Creativity and Meals -- A Domestic Language -- The Structure of Dinners in The Awakening -- The Artist's Vision -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- WORKS CONSULTED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V

English.

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