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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Culinary Etiquette and Capitalist Appetites: Consumption and Economies of Food
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Confrontations and Negotiations: Power Dynamics at the American Table
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Palatable Virtues: Models of Citizenship and the National Cuisine
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Man Does Not Live on Bread Alone: The Paradox of Nourishment
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
"Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in Nineteenth-Century American Literature makes an original, interestingly diverse, and much-needed contribution to both the cultural study of American literature and the emerging field of critical food studies in the humanities." - Gregory Eiselein, Professor of English and Coffman University Distinguished Teaching Scholar, Kansas State University and author of Literature and Humanitarian Reform in the Civil War Era
"This cross-disciplinary collection investigates the complexities of making uniquely American food scenes out of continued exchanges transporting not merely food, but also its metaphors in a two-way flow of transatlantic responses. Elbert and Drews speak of a culinary declaration of independence as writers of popular fiction as well as of cookbooks and travel accounts shuttled between evocations of abundance and excess, scarcity and frugality to create intriguing culinary metaphors, compelling us to gloss anew changing ways ofpresenting food in writing." - Tamara S. Wagner, author of Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel, 1740-1890 and co-editor of Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century: Narratives of Consumption, 1700-1900
About the authors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Editors: Monika Elbert, Marie Drews
Series Title: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230103146
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Monika Elbert and Marie Drews 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-37982-8Published: 09 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10314-6Published: 26 October 2009
Series ISSN: 2691-1256
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5218
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 267
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: North American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Aesthetics, Regional and Cultural Studies