Racial indigestion : eating bodies in the 19th century
Record details
- ISBN: 0814770037
- ISBN: 9780814770030
- ISBN: 0814770029
- ISBN: 9780814770023
- ISBN: 0814738370
- ISBN: 9780814738375
- ISBN: 0814770053
- ISBN: 9780814770054
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 275 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color)
remote - Publisher: New York : New York University Press, ©2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 late nineteenth- -- Century consumer citizenship -- Conclusion : racial indigestion. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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