Drews, Marie
Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
1. Introduction
Monika Elbert, Marie Drews
Part I. Culinary Etiquette and Capitalist Appetites: Consumption and Economies of Food
2. Suburban Men at the Table: Culinary Aesthetics in the Mid-Century Country Book
Maura D’Amore
3. Conspicuous Consumption: Howells, James, and the Gilded Age Restaurant
Mark McWilliams
4. “Bonbons in Abundance”: The Politics of Sweetness in Kate Chopin’s Fiction
Andrew Dix, Lorna Piatti
Part II. Confrontations and Negotiations: Power Dynamics at the American Table
5. Whale as a Dish: Culinary Rhetoric and the Discourse of Power in
Robert T. Tally
6. Catharine Beecher, Harriet E. Wilson, and Domestic Discomfort at the Northern Table
Marie Drews
7. “True and Faithful in Everything”: Recipes for Servant and Class Reform in Catherine Owen’s Cookbook Novels
Kim Cohen
Part III. Palatable Virtues: Models of Citizenship and the National Cuisine
8. Doughnuts and Gingerbread, Apples and Pears: Boyhood Food Economies in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals for Children
Lorinda B. Cohoon
9. The Edible Book: White Female Pleasure and Novel Reading
Cree LeFavour
10. The Perfect Dinner: Hawthorne’s Ruminations on Old and New England
Monika Elbert
Part IV. Man Does Not Live on Bread Alone: The Paradox of Nourishment
11. Hunger, Panic, Refusal: The Gift of Food in Susan Warner’s
Hildegard Hoeller
12. Strawberries and Salt: Culinary Hazards and Moral Education in
Yvonne Elizabeth Pelletier
13. “This Foreshadowed Food”: Representations of Food and Hunger in Emily Dickinson’s American Gothic
Elizabeth Andrews
14. Consumption and Cannibalism in the Altrurian Romances of William Dean Howells
Lance Rubin
Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Aesthetics, Regional and Cultural Studies
- Editor
- Drews, Marie
- Elbert, Monika
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
- Page amount
- 275 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230103146
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-37982-8