1st Edition
Food and Femininity in Twentieth-Century British Women's Fiction
By Andrea Adolph
Copyright 2009
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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In her feminist 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, Andrea Adolph examines female characters in novels by Barbara Pym, Angela Carter, Helen Dunmore, Helen Fielding, and Rachel Cusk. Adolph focuses on how women's relationships to food (cooking, eating, serving)... Read more
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;
Biography
Andrea Adolph is associate professor of English and coordinator of service-learning at Kent State University-Stark Campus, USA.
'... 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
