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Author:   Janet Floyd ,  Laurel Forster
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780803233614

ISBN 10:   0803233612
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   01 March 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgements1. The Recipe in its Cultural Contexts -- Janet Floyd and Laurel ForsterTRADITIONS2. Of Recipe Books and Reading in the Nineteenth Century: Mrs Beeton and her Cultural Consequences -- Margaret Beetham3. Redefining 'Rudimentary' Narrative: Women's Nineteenth-Century Manuscript Cookbooks -- Andrea K. Newlyn4. 'Talking' Recipes: What Mrs Fisher Knows and the African-American Cookbook Tradition -- Andrew Warnes5. Domesticating Imperialism: Curry and Cookbooks in Victorian England -- Susan Zlotnick6. 'In Close Touch With her Government': Women and the Domestic Science Movement in World War One Propaganda -- Celia M. KingsburyINDIVIDUAL INTERVENTIONS7. The Importance of Being Greedy: Connoisseurship and Domesticity in the Writings of Elizabeth Robins Pennell -- Talia Schaffer8. Simple, Honest Food: Elizabeth David and the Construction of Nation in Cookery Writing -- Janet FloydCONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS9. Liberating the Recipe: A Study of the Relationship between Food and Feminism in the early 1970s -- Laurel Forster10. Regulation and Creativity: The Use of Recipes in Contemporary Fiction -- Sarah Sceats11. Nigella Bites and the Naked Chef: The Sexual and the Sensual in Television Cookery Programmmes -- Maggie Andrews12. Adapting and Adopting: The Migrating Recipe -- Marina de Camargo HeckBibliographyName IndexSubject Index

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Janet Floyd is a senior lecturer in American studies at King’s College in London, the author of Writing the Pioneer Women, and the coeditor of Domestic Space: Reading the Nineteenth-Century Interior. Laurel Forster is a senior lecturer in media studies at the University of Portsmouth, coeditor of British Culture and Society in 1970s Britain: The Lost Decade, and author of numerous articles on feminism and women’s writing.

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