Tamar Heller is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Dead Secrets: Wilkie Collins and the Female Gothic and coeditor (with Diane Long Hoeveler) of Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction: The British and American Traditions. Patricia Moran is Associate Professor of English at the University of California at Davis and the author of Word of Mouth: Body Language in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf.

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1. INTRODUCTION: SCENES OF THE APPLE: APPETITE, DESIRE, WRITING
Tamar Heller and Patricia Moran

PART 1. APPETITE AND CONSUMPTION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY CULTURAL POLITICS

2. GOOD AND PLENTY: QUEEN VICTORIA FIGURES THE IMPERIAL BODY
Adrienne Munich

3. INGESTION, CONTAGION, SEDUCTION: VICTORIAN METAPHORS OF READING
Pamela K. Gilbert

4. CONSUMING IMAGES: WOMEN, HUNGER, AND THE VOTE
Linda Schlossberg

PART 2. GROTESQUE, GHOSTLY, AND CANNIBALISTIC HUNGER IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY TEXTS

5. "THE COURAGE OF HER APPETITES": THE AMBIVALENT GROTESQUE IN ELLEN GLASGOW'S ROMANTIC COMEDIANS
Debra Beilke

6. "DEATH IS A SKIPPED MEAL COMPARED TO THIS": FOOD AND HUNGER IN TONI MORRISON'S BELOVED
Ann Folwell Stanford

7. "THERE IS NO GOD WHO CAN KEEP US FROM TASTING": GOOD CANNIBALISM IN HELENE CIXOUS'S THE BOOK OF PROMETHEA
Chris Foss

8. "I CANNOT EAT MY WORDS BUT I DO": FOOD, BODY, AND WORD IN THE NOVELS OF JEANETTE WINTERSON
Suzanne Keen

PART 3. FOOD AND COOKING: PATRIARCHAL, COLONIAL, FAMILIAL STRUCTURES

9. REWRITING THE HYSTERIC AS ANOREXIC IN TSITSI DANGAREMBGA'S NERVOUS CONDITIONS
Sue Thomas

10. LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS' NOVEL RECIPES AND LAURA ESQUIVAL'S LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE
Janice A. Jaffe

11. "A SINKSIDE, STOVESIDE, PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE": FEMALE AUTHORITY AND KITCHEN SPACE IN CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S WRITING
Patricia Moran

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