Writing the Meal Dinner in the Fiction of Twentieth-Century Women Writers Diane Elizabeth McGee
In most cultures, women are in charge of meals and the rituals and customs surrounding meals. Writing the Meal explores the importance of dinners and other meals in fiction by Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, and other women writing at the turn of the twentieth centur...
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University of Toronto Press
2016, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: 'A Time to Eat'
- 1. Hors d'Oeuvres: Food, Culture, and Language
- 2. The Angel in the Kitchen: Early Twentieth-Century Trends in Dining
- 3. In with the In-Crowd: Edith Wharton and the Dinner Tables of Old New York
- 4. The Art of Being an Honoured Guest: The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country
- 5. 'Hungry Roaming': Dinners and Non-Dinners in the Stories of Katherine Mansfield
- 6. Through the Dining-Room Window: Perspectives of the Hostess in the Work of Mansfield and Woolf
- 7. The Art of Domesticity
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Works Consulted
- Index