Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction

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"This study explores the subtle and complex significance of food and eating in contemporary women's fiction. Sarah Sceats reveals how preoccupations with food, its consumption and the body are central to the work of writers such as Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood and others. Through close analysis of their fiction, Sceats examines the multiple metaphors associated with these themes, making powerful connections between food and love, motherhood, sexual desire, self-identity and social behaviour."--Jacket.

subjects: 20th century,  Body, Human, in literature,  Consumption (Economics) in literature,  Eating disorders in literature,  English fiction,  Food habits in literature,  Food in literature,  Gastronomy in literature,  Great Britain,  History,  History and criticism,  Women and literature,  Women authors,  Human body in literature,  English fiction, women authors,  English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century,  Diet in literature,  English literature,  Alimentation dans la littérature,  Femmes et littérature,  Histoire,  Roman anglais,  Histoire et critique,  Consommation (Économie politique) dans la littérature,  Comportement alimentaire, Troubles du, dans la littérature,  Corps humain dans la littérature,  Habitudes alimentaires dans la littérature,  Écrits de femmes anglais,  Aliments dans la littérature,  Troubles du comportement alimentaire dans la littérature,  Gastronomie dans la littérature,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  European,  English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,  Feeding Behavior,  Eating,  Literature,  Women,  Human Body

Places: Great Britain

Times: 20th century