Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction Scenes of the Apple: Appetite, Desire, Writing 1
6. Appetite and Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Cultural Politics
7. Good and Plenty: Queen Victoria Figures the Imperial Body 45
8. Ingestion, Contagion, Seduction: Victorian Metaphors of Reading 65
9. Consuming Images: Women, Hunger, and the Vote 87
10. Grotesque, Ghostly, and Cannibalistic Hunger in Twentieth-Century Texts
11. “The Courage of Her Appetites”: The Ambivalent Grotesque in Ellen Glasgow’s Romantic Comedians 109
12. “Death Is a Skipped Meal Compared to This”: Food and Hunger in Toni Morrison’s Beloved 129
13. “There is No God Who can Keep us from Tasting”:Good Cannibalism in Hélène Cixous’s The Book of Promethea 149
14. “I Cannot Eat My Words but I Do”: Food, Body, and Word in the Novels of Jeanette Winterson 167
15. Food and Cooking: Patriarchal, Colonial, Familial Structures
16. Rewriting the Hysteric as Anorexic in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions 183
17. Latin American Women Writers’ Novel Recipes and Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate 199
18. “A Sinkside, Stoveside, Personal Perspective”: Female Authority and Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women’s Writing 215
19. Contributors 239
20. Index 243