Racial indigestion : eating bodies in the 19th century / Kyla Wazana Tompkins.

By: Tompkins, Kyla Wazana [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: America and the long 19th centuryPublisher: New York : New York University Press, [2012]Copyright date: 2012Description: 1 online resource (323 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780814738375 (e-book)Subject(s): Graham, Sylvester, 1794-1851 | Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 -- Criticism and interpretation | 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 | Food in literature | United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Racial indigestion : eating bodies in the 19th century.DDC classification: 394.1/20973 LOC classification: GT2853.U5 | T66 2012Online resources: Click to View
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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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