Culinary aesthetics and practices in nineteenth-century American literature / edited by Monika Elbert and Marie Drews.
"Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines the preponderance of food imagery in nineteenth-century literary texts.Contributors to this volume analyze the social, political, and cultural implications of scenes involving food and dining and illustrate ho...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
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| Series: | Nineteenth-century major lives and letters.
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| Summary: | "Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines the preponderance of food imagery in nineteenth-century literary texts.Contributors to this volume analyze the social, political, and cultural implications of scenes involving food and dining and illustrate how "aesthetic" notions of culinary preparation are often undercut by the actual practices of cooking and eating. As contributors interrogate the values and meanings behind culinary discourses, they complicate commonplace notions about American identity and question the power structure behind food production and consumption."--Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0230616283 9780230616288 9780230103146 |