Culinary aesthetics and practices in nineteenth-century American literature

This study inspects the preponderance and significance of food imagery in literary texts by nineteenth-century American writers. INDICE: - PART I: CULINARY ETIQUETTE AND CAPITALISTIC APPETITES: CONSUMPTION AND ECONOMIES OF FOOD - Imagined Communities: Susan Warner and the Economics of Food; H.Hoeller - Suburban Men at the Table: Culinary Aesthetics in the Mid-Century Country Book; M.D'Amore - Conspicuous Consumption: Howells, James, and the Gilded Age Restaurant; M.McWilliams - Cannibalism and Capitalism in the Altrurian Romances of William Dean Howells; L.Rubin - PART II: COOKING UP A STORM: POWER DYNAMICS IN FOOD NARRATIVES - Whale as Dish: Culinary Rhetoric and the Discourse of Power in Moby-Dick; R.Tally - Domestic Discomfort and Dinner Table Shenanigans: Catharine Beecher Dines in with Our Nig; M.Drews - 'Bonbons in abundance': The Politics of Sweetness in Kate Chopin's Fiction; A.Dix ; L.Piatti - 'You don't know what a good manager I could be': Managing Class andConsumerism in Catherine Owen's Cookbook Novels; K.Cohen - PART III: PALATABLE VIRTUES: MODELS OF CITIZENSHIP AND THE NATIONAL CUISINE - Doughnuts and Gingerbread, Apples and Pears: Boyhood Food Economies in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Series Books For Children; L.Cohoon - The Kitchen as Moral Territory; K.Sloan - Food for Thought: Dinnertable Discourse, Dyspepsia, and Hawthorne's Ruminations on Old and New England; M.Elbert - The Edible Book: White FemaleSexuality and Novel Reading; C.LeFavour - PART IV: MAN DOES NOT LIVE ON BREADALONE: THE PARADOX OF SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT - Searching for Eupepsia: BronsonAlcott, the Hunger Artist; R.Bellin - Strawberries and Salt: Food Preparationas Moral Education in Alcott's Little Women; Y.Pelletier - 'This foreshadowedFood': Representations of Food and Hunger in Emily Dickinson's American Gothic'; E.Andrews - Austin's Consuming 'Desertness' in The Land of Little Rain; B.Hume

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61628-8
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 276
• Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés