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

McGee, Diane Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802085768 ISBN 13: 9780802085764

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2002

Synopsis

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 century. 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.

Dinners serve as both a metaphor for the work of art and a source of inspiration for the fictional artist, while some works of fiction can be read as meals offered to the reader. As part of a larger domestic experience, dinners propose a new artistic language, which can be a crucial component of twentieth-century women's art.

About this title

About the Author:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0802085768
• ISBN 13: 9780802085764
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 221