ISBN:
9780814770023
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (323 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
America and the Long 19th Century
Parallel Title:
Print version Racial Indigestion : Eating Bodies in the 19th Century
DDC:
394.1/20973
Keywords:
Graham, Sylvester ; 1794-1851
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Alcott, Louisa May ; 1832-1888 ; Criticism and interpretation
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Food habits ; Social aspects ; United States ; History ; 19th century
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Diet ; Social aspects ; United States ; History ; 19th century
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Cooking ; Social aspects ; United States ; History ; 19th century
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Human body ; Social aspects ; United States ; History ; 19th century
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Food in literature
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United States ; Race relations ; History ; 19th century
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
The act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consumes the object being eaten. At the same time, eating performs a kind of vulnerability to the world, revealing a fundamental interdependence between the eater and that which exists outside her body. Racial Indigestion explores the links between food, visual and literary culture in the nineteenth-century United States to reveal how eating produces political subjects by justifying the social discourses that create bodily meaning. Combing through a visually stunning and rare archive of children's literature, architectural history, do
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century; 1 Kitchen Insurrections; 2 "She Made the Table a Snare to Them": Sylvester Graham's Imperial Dietetics; 3 "Everything 'Cept Eat Us": The Mouth as Political Organ in the Antebellum Novel; 4 A Wholesome Girl: Addiction, Grahamite Dietetics, and Louisa May Alcott's Rose Campbell Novels; 5 "What's De Use Talking 'Bout Dem 'Mendments?": Trade Cards and Consumer Citizenship at the End of the Nineteenth Century; Conclusion: Racial Indigestion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P
Description / Table of Contents:
QR; S; T; U; V; W; Y; About the Author;
Note:
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