Racial indigestion : eating bodies in the 19th century /
Tompkins, Kyla Wazana,
Racial indigestion : eating bodies in the 19th century / [electronic resource] Kyla Wazana Tompkins. - 1 online resource (323 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color). - America and the long 19th century . - America and the long 19th century. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : eating bodies in the nineteenth century -- Kitchen insurrections -- "She made the table a snare to them" : Sylvester Graham's imperial dietetics -- "Everything 'cept eat us" : the mouth as political organ in the antebellum novel -- A wholesome girl : addiction, Grahamite dietetics and Louisa May Alcott's Rose -- Campbell novels -- "What's de use talking 'bout dem 'mendments?" : trade cards and consumer citizenship at the end of the Nineteenth Century -- Conclusion : racial indigestion.
9780814738375 (e-book)
Graham, Sylvester, 1794-1851.
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 --Criticism and interpretation.
Food habits--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century.
Diet--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century.
Cooking--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century.
Human body--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century.
Food in literature.
United States--Race relations--History--19th century.
Electronic books.
GT2853.U5 / T66 2012
394.1/20973
Racial indigestion : eating bodies in the 19th century / [electronic resource] Kyla Wazana Tompkins. - 1 online resource (323 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color). - America and the long 19th century . - America and the long 19th century. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : eating bodies in the nineteenth century -- Kitchen insurrections -- "She made the table a snare to them" : Sylvester Graham's imperial dietetics -- "Everything 'cept eat us" : the mouth as political organ in the antebellum novel -- A wholesome girl : addiction, Grahamite dietetics and Louisa May Alcott's Rose -- Campbell novels -- "What's de use talking 'bout dem 'mendments?" : trade cards and consumer citizenship at the end of the Nineteenth Century -- Conclusion : racial indigestion.
9780814738375 (e-book)
Graham, Sylvester, 1794-1851.
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 --Criticism and interpretation.
Food habits--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century.
Diet--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century.
Cooking--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century.
Human body--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century.
Food in literature.
United States--Race relations--History--19th century.
Electronic books.
GT2853.U5 / T66 2012
394.1/20973