Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century Narratives of Consumption, 1700D1900

by Wagner, Tamara S.; Hassan, Narin; Bhattacharya, Sumangala; Gregory, James; Broglio, Ron; Day, Helen; Rinne, Christine; Williams, Andy; Bauer, Helen Pike; Wessell, Adele; Ketabgian, Tamara; Moore, Tara; Elbert, Monika; Jenkins, Alice; Chevallier, Jim; Mini

• ISBN13: 9780739145104
• ISBN10: 073914510X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-16
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century brings together detailed analyses of the cultural myths-or fictions-of consumption that have shaped discourse on consumer practices from the eighteenth century onward. The chapters provide an excitingly diverse range of perspectives, including musicology, philosophy, history, art history, and cultural and post-colonial studies, as well as the study of literature in English, French, and German. The broad scope of this collection will engage audiences both inside and outside academia interested in the politics of food and consumption in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Tamara S. Wagner is associate professor of English literature at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Narin Hassan is assistant professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech University.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Production and Presentation: Making Food Fictions
Badly-Boiled Potatoes and Other Crises	p. 3
Vegetable Fictions in the Kingdom of Roast Beef: Representing the Vegetarian in Victorian Literature	p. 17
"The Best Machine for Converting Herbage into Money": Romantic Cattle Culture	p. 35
Möbial Consumption: Stability, Flux and Interpermeability in 'Mrs Beeton'	p. 49
Consuming the Maidservant	p. 63
Victorian Spectacles of Consumption
Pot-Bellied Salt-Cellars and Talking Plates: Fetishism and Signification in Our Mutual Friend	p. 81
Eating in the Contact Zone: Food and Identity in Anglo-India	p. 95
Between Alimentary Products and the Art of Cooking: The Industrialisation of Eating at the World Fairs - 1888/1893	p. 107
Foreign Tastes and "Manchester Tea-Parties:" Eating and Drinking with the Victorian Lower Orders	p. 125
National Identity and Victorian Christmas Foods	p. 141
Rewriting the Puritan Past: Food and Illicit Desires in Hawthorne's Fiction	p. 155
What Katy Ate: Girls Eating and Reading in Classic Nineteenth-Century American Children's Fiction	p. 173
Blood, Blockage, and Regurgitation: The Consumer's Modernity
The Queen's Coffee and Casanova's Chocolate: The Early Modern Breakfast in France	p. 191
Kantstipation	p. 209
A Chubby Orpheus: Handel's Corpulence as a Prerogative of Genius	p. 223
The Insatiable I: Intoxication and Desire in the Baudelairian Aesthetic	p. 237
"No Mere Modernity": Biopolitics, Media, and the Breeding of the Modern Consumer in Bram Stoker's Dracula	p. 255
Index	p. 275
Contributors	p. 287
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