An edition of Culinary aesthetics and practices in nineteenth-century American literature
(2009)
Culinary aesthetics and practices in nineteenth-century American literature
by Monika M. Elbert
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Culinary aesthetics and practices in nineteenth-century American literature
2009, Palgrave Macmillan
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Table of Contents
Introduction / Monika Elbert and Marie Drews
pt. 1. Culinary etiquette and capitalist appetites: consumption and economies of food. Suburban men at the table: culinary aesthetics in the mid-century country book / Maura D'Amore
Conspicuous consumption: Howells, James, and the gilded age restaurant / Mark McWilliams
"Bonbons in abundance": the politics of sweetness in Kate Chopin's fiction / Andrew Dix and Lorna Piatti
pt. 2. Confrontations and negotiations: power dynamics at the American table. Whale as a dish: culinary rhetoric and the discourse of power in Moby-Dick / Robert T. Tally Jr.
Catharine Beecher, Harriet E. Wilson, and domestic discomfort at the northern table / Marie Drews
"True and faithful in everything": recipes for servant and class reform in Catherine Owen's cookbook novels / Kim Cohen
pt. 3. Palatable virtues: models of citizenship and the national cuisine. Doughnuts and gingerbread, apples and pears: boyhood food economies in nineteenth-century periodicals for children / Lorinda B. Cohoon
The edible book: white female pleasure and novel reading / Cree LeFavour
The perfect dinner: Hawthorne's ruminations on old and New England / Monika Elbert
pt. 4. Man does not live on bread alone: the paradox of nourishment. Hunger, panic, refusal: the gift of food in Susan Warner's The wide, wide world / Hildegard Hoeller
Strawberries and salt: culinary hazards and moral education in Little women / Yvonne Elizabeth Pelletier
"This foreshadowed food": representations of food and hunger in Emily Dickinson's American gothic / Elizabeth Andrews
Consumption and cannibalism in the altrurian romances of William Dean Howells / Lance Rubin.
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