Aesthetic Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Women's Food Writing

The Innovative Appetites of M.F.K. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Elizabeth David
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-87138-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 459 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

This book explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992), Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), and Elizabeth David (1913-1992). Growing up during a time when women's food writing was largely limited to the domestic cookbook, which helped to codify the guidelines of middle class domesticity, Fisher, Toklas, and David claimed the pleasures of gastronomy previously reserved for men. Articulating a language through which female desire is artfully and publicly sated, Fisher, Toklas, and David expanded women’s food writing beyond the domestic realm by pioneering forms of self-expression that celebrate female appetite for pleasure and for culinary adventure. In so doing, they illuminate the power of genre-bending food writing to transgress and reconfigure conventional gender ideologies. For these women, food encouraged a sensory engagement with their environment and a physical receptivity toward pleasure that engendered their creative aesthetic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mclean, Alice

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Nineteenth-Century Food Writing: From Gastronomic Literature to Domestic Cookbook 2. Forging a Space for Female Desire: M.F.K. Fisher's The Gastronomical Me 3. A Queer Appetite: The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook 4. A Mediterranean Engagement: The Aesthetic Pleasures of Elizabeth David 5. Literary Heirs

Über Autor(innen)

Mclean, Alice
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).