Writing the Meal: Dinner in the Fiction of Twentieth-Century Women Writers

Diane Elizabeth McGee

Published by University of Toronto Press 2001

Writing the Meal

Dinner in the Fiction of Twentieth-Century Women Writers

Diane Elizabeth McGee

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442683723

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The author proposes that the depiction of meals has particular significance and resonance for women writers, and that these presentations of meals reflect larger concerns about women’s domestic and public roles in a time of social and cultural change.

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McGee Diane Elizabeth :

Diane McGee is Associate Dean, John Abbott College, Ste.Anne de Bellevue, Quebec.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: 'A Time to Eat' Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Hors d'Oeuvres: Food, Culture, and Language Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
2. The Angel in the Kitchen: Early Twentieth-Century Trends in Dining Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
3. In with the In-Crowd: Edith Wharton and the Dinner Tables of Old New York Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
4. The Art of Being an Honoured Guest: The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
5. 'Hungry Roaming': Dinners and Non-Dinners in the Stories of Katherine Mansfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
6. Through the Dining-Room Window: Perspectives of the Hostess in the Work of Mansfield and Woolf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
7. The Art of Domesticity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Works Consulted Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 221

eBook

Published: November 6, 2002
ISBN: 9781442683723