The study of food in literature complicates established critical positions. This title explores the relation in the context of late 18th and early 19th century women's fiction, where concerns about bodily, economic and intellectual productivity and consumption power decades of novels, conduct books and popular medicine.

The 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. The introduction suggests ways in...

Shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize for Historical Fiction
Award-winning author Sarah Moss's most recent work of historical fiction is a portrait of a young couple's unconventional marriage as it's tested by separate quests for identity in work and life. Set in the Victorian Age, Signs for Lost Children grapples with central themes of early feminism, mental health reform, and marriage as an imposed institution.
Ally Moberly, a recently qualified doctor, never expected to marry until she met Tom Cavendish. Only weeks into their marriage, Tom sets out for Japan, leaving...

Sarah Moss argues that in addition to full beliefs, credences can constitute knowledge. She introduces the notion of probabilistic content and shows how it plays a central role not only in epistemology, but in the philosophy of mind and language. Just you can believe and assert propositions, you can believe and assert probabilistic contents.

Adam Goldschmidt lebt als hauptberuflicher Vater, nebenberuflicher Dozent und Ehemann einer überarbeiteten Ärztin in einem Vorort von Coventry. Sein Alltag dreht sich um Kindergeburtstage, schmutzige Wäsche und vitaminreiche Ernährung. Doch dann kommt der Morgen, an dem er einen Anruf aus der Schule seiner Töchter erhält. Er beginnt mit den Worten, von denen ein jeder hofft, sie niemals hören zu müssen: "Es ist etwas passiert".

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Um der strengen Führung ihrer Mutter zu entkommen, träumt sich Ally weit fort, auf fliegende Teppiche und in ferne Länder. Als sie älter wird, formt sich ein neuer Traum in ihr: Sie will als eine der ersten Frauen Englands Medizin studieren. Doch dafür muss sie in einer Männerwelt bestehen, in der der kleinste Fehler sie zu Fall bringen kann.

The devastating new novel from Sarah Moss, author of Women's Prize longlisted Ghost Wall.