Scenes of the Apple : Food and the Female Body in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Women's Writing

Mostly US, but also one Australian, scholar of literature explore how literary women have dealt with appetite and consumption in 19th-century politics, grotesque and cannibalistic hunger in the 20th century, and patriarchal and familial aspects of food and cooking. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).