Aesthetic Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Women's Food Writing: The Innovative Appetites of M. F. K. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Elizabeth David

ISBN-13: 9780415871389 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 208 str.

Alice McLean

Opis

This text explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of M.F.K. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Elizabeth David. Each of them pioneered an idiosyncratic form of writing that challenged the rigidly gendered bounds of 19th century food writing to establish a 20th century tradition that celebrates female appetite.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Gendering of Appetite in Nineteenth-Century Food Writing  2. Forging a Space for Female Desire: M. F. K. Fisher on the Art of Eating  3. A Queer Appetite: The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book  4. A Sensual Engagement: Elizabeth David’s Gastronomic Cookbooks  5. From "Aesthetic Choice" to a "Diaporic Aesthetic": Patience Gray, Vertamae Smart Grosvenor, and Monique Truong

O autorze

Alice McLean is the author of Cooking in American History (1840-1945). She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Davis, before being awarded an Honors Teaching Fellowship at Sweet Briar College (2005-2009).