Scenes of the Apple

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.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 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 COMEDIANSDebra Beilke 6. "DEATH IS A SKIPPED MEAL COMPARED TO THIS": FOOD AND HUNGER IN TONI MORRISON'S BELOVEDAnn Folwell Stanford 7. "THERE IS NO GOD WHO CAN KEEP US FROM TASTING": GOOD CANNIBALISM IN HELENE CIXOUS'S THE BOOK OF PROMETHEAChris 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 CONDITIONSSue Thomas 10. LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS' NOVEL RECIPES AND LAURA ESQUIVAL'S LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATEJanice A. Jaffe 11. "A SINKSIDE, STOVESIDE, PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE": FEMALE AUTHORITY AND KITCHEN SPACE IN CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S WRITINGPatricia Moran List of Contributors Index