| Description |
242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Lilian R. Furst -- Cannibalism and starvation: the parameters of eating disorders in literature / Paulo Medeiros -- "The slow-eater-tiny-bite-taker": an eating disorder in Betty MacDonald's Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle / J. Ellen Gainor -- Magic food, compulsive eating, and power poetics / Mervyn Nicholson -- Medea and Belowed: self-definition and abortive nurturing in literary treatments of the infanticidal mother / Lillian Corti -- Double standard in the flesh: |
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gender, fasting, and power in English Renaissance drama / Nancy A. Gutierrez -- Angel's food: a case of fasting in eighteenth-century England / Joanna B. Gillespie -- The order and disorder of eating in Byron's Don Juan / Peter W. Graham -- The anorexic syndrome and the nineteenth-domestic novel / Paula Marantz Cohen -- What some women can't swallow: hunger as protest in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley / Deirdre Lashgari -- The power of the powerless: a trio of |
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nineteenth-century French disorderly eaters / Lilian R. Furst -- New England indigestion and its victims / Elsa Nettels -- Consumption to the last drop: Huysmans' dyspeptic tale of eating a Rebours / Raymond Adolph Prier -- The death of the Buddenbrooks: four rich meals a day / Martha Satz -- Dürrenmatt's gastronomic grotesqueries: eating in a dis-ordered world / Barbara Lide -- The forbidden fruit and female disorderly eating: three versions of Eve / Gunilla Theander |
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Kester -- Afterword / Peter W. Graham. |
| Subject |
Food in literature.
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Eating disorders in literature.
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Dinners and dining in literature.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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Feeding and Eating Disorders.
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Food.
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Furst, Lilian R.
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Graham, Peter W., 1951-
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| ISBN |
0271008156 |
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0271008717 paper alkaline paper |
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