{"product_id":"spilling-the-beans-eating-cooking-reading-and-writing-in-british-womens-fiction-1770-1830-paperback","title":"Spilling the Beans: Eating, Cooking, Reading and Writing in British Women's Fiction, 1770-1830 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah Moss\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpilling the Beans shows how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century anxieties about women's consumption and production are manifest in novelists' and novels' accounts of what heroines, readers and writers do with food.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe study of food in literature complicates established critical positions. Both a libidinal pleasure and the ultimate commodity, food in fiction can represent sex as well as money and brings the body and the marketplace together in ways that are sometimes obvious and sometimes unsettling. Spilling the Beans explores these relations in the context of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century women's fiction, where concerns about bodily, economic and intellectual productivity and consumption power decades of novels, conduct books and popular medicine. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe introduction suggests ways in which attention to food in these texts might complicate recent developments in literary theory and criticism, while the body of the book is devoted to close readings of novels and children's stories by Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth and Susan Ferrier. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book will be of interest to scholars and students of eighteenth and nineteenth century literature, women's studies and material culture.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Moss is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 30, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51783641858336,"sku":"9780719086441","price":51.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d62cf5a340db6b5bb09b98f08ec35495.webp?v=1780591461","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/spilling-the-beans-eating-cooking-reading-and-writing-in-british-womens-fiction-1770-1830-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}