Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: 'A Time to Eat' 1
4. 1. Hors d'Oeuvres: Food, Culture, and Language 10
5. 2. The Angel in the Kitchen: Early Twentieth-Century Trends in Dining 24
6. 3. In with the In-Crowd: Edith Wharton and the Dinner Tables of Old New York 38
7. 4. The Art of Being an Honoured Guest: The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country 60
8. 5. 'Hungry Roaming': Dinners and Non-Dinners in the Stories of Katherine Mansfield 81
9. 6. Through the Dining-Room Window: Perspectives of the Hostess in the Work of Mansfield and Woolf 108
10. 7. The Art of Domesticity 147
11. Conclusion 182
12. Notes 187
13. Works Cited 201
14. Works Consulted 209
15. Index 215