Racial indigestion [electronic resource] : eating bodies in the nineteenth century / Kyla Wazana Tompkins.
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TextSeries: America and the long 19th century | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)ISBN: - 9780814738375
- Food in literature
- Human body -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Cooking -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Diet -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Food habits -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
- Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Graham, Sylvester, 1794-1851
- 394.1/20973 23
- GT2853.U5 T66 2012
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 late nineteenth- -- Century consumer citizenship -- Conclusion : racial indigestion.
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