Culinary aesthetics and practices in nineteenth-century American literature
By: edited by Monika Elbert and Marie Drews
Series: Nineteenth-century major lives and letters; Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780230616288
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Monika Elbert and Marie Drews; title: 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; title: Conspicuous consumption: Howells, James, and the gilded age restaurant / Mark McWilliams; title: "Bonbons in abundance": the politics of sweetness in Kate Chopin's fiction / Andrew Dix and Lorna Piatti; title: 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.; title: Catharine Beecher, Harriet E. Wilson, and domestic discomfort at the northern table / Marie Drews; title: "True and faithful in everything": recipes for servant and class reform in Catherine Owen's cookbook novels / Kim Cohen; title: 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; title: The edible book: white female pleasure and novel reading / Cree LeFavour; title: The perfect dinner: Hawthorne's ruminations on old and New England / Monika Elbert; title: 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; title: Strawberries and salt: culinary hazards and moral education in Little women / Yvonne Elizabeth Pelletier; title: "This foreshadowed food": representations of food and hunger in Emily Dickinson's American gothic / Elizabeth Andrews; title: Consumption and cannibalism in the altrurian romances of William Dean Howells / Lance Rubin.