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Racial indigestion : eating bodies in the nineteenth century /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tompkins, Kyla Wazana
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2012]
Series:America and the long 19th century.
Subjects:
Food habits > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Diet > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Cooking > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Human body > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Graham, Sylvester, > 1794-1851.
Alcott, Louisa May, > 1832-1888 > Criticism and interpretation.
Food in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.