02148nam a2200373 a 4500 ebr10627271 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 101104s2009 enk sb 001 0 eng d 2010674673 071907651X 9780719076510 9781847794475 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)761930306 PR6113.O88 S65 2009eb 823.6093564 22 Moss, Sarah. Spilling the beans [electronic resource] : eating, cooking, reading and writing in British women's fiction, 1770-1830 / Sarah Moss. Manchester, U.K. ; New York, N.Y. : Manchester University Press, 2009. 202 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. Eating her words: the politics of commensality in Frances Burney's fiction and letters -- The maternal aliment: feeding daughters in the works of Mary Wollstonecraft -- The bill of fare: the politics of food in Maria Edgeworth's children's fiction -- Eating for Britain: food, family and national identity in Susan Ferrier's fiction -- Afterword. The study of food in literature complicates established critical positions. This title explores the relation in the context of late 18th and early 19th century women's fiction, where concerns about bodily, economic and intellectual productivity and consumption power decades of novels, conduct books and popular medicine. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. English fiction 18th century History and criticism. English fiction 19th century History and criticism. English fiction Women authors History and criticism. Food in literature. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10627271 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 66748 66748