Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing

Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing analyses the themes of food and emotion in fiction, poetry, and historical writing by Italian women over a period of one hundred years.

Patrizia Sambuco is the editor of Transmissions of Memory and Italian Women Writers, 1800–2000 and the author of Corporeal Bonds.

Diego Zancani, Emeritus Professor of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford:
“Exploring the relationship between food and emotions in Italian women writers, Patrizia Sambuco presents an innovative and stimulating approach to a relatively neglected field.”

Paula Schwartz, Lois B. Watson Professor Emerita of French Studies, Middlebury College:
“Patrizia Sambuco’s new book is a timely, insightful investigation of a century of Italian women’s writing in genres as diverse as cookbooks, memoirs, letters, journalism, and fiction, but it is much more than literary criticism. A truly interdisciplinary enterprise, this book will be required reading for students of culture, philosophy, history, economics, art, science, food, women, gender, and war.”