Scenes of the Apple -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Scenes of the Apple: Appetite, Desire, Writing -- Part 1: Appetite and Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Cultural Politics -- 2. Good and Plenty: Queen Victoria Figures the Imperial Body -- 3. Ingestion, Contagion, Seduction: Victorian Metaphors of Reading -- 4. Consuming Images: Women, Hunger, and the Vote -- 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 -- 6. "Death Is a Skipped Meal Compared to This": Food and Hunger in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- 7. "There Is No God Who Can Keep Us from Tasting": Good Cannibalism in Hélène Cixous's The Book of Promethea -- 8. "I Cannot Eat My Words but I Do": Food, Body, and Word in the Novels of Jeanette Winterson -- Part 3: Food and Cooking: Patriarchal, Colonial, Familial Structures -- 9. Rewriting the Hysteric as Anorexic in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions -- 10. Latin American Women Writers' Novel Recipes and Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate -- 11. "A Sinkside, Stoveside, Personal Perspective": Female Authority and Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women's Writing -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.