Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

PART I: CULINARY ETIQUETTE AND CAPITALISTIC APPETITES: CONSUMPTION AND ECONOMIES OF FOOD Imagined Communities: Susan Warner and the Economics of Food; H.Hoeller Suburban Men at the Table: Culinary Aesthetics in the Mid-Century Country Book; M.D'Amore Conspicuous Consumption: Howells, James, and the Gilded Age Restaurant; M.McWilliams Cannibalism and Capitalism in the Altrurian Romances of William Dean Howells; L.Rubin PART II: COOKING UP A STORM: POWER DYNAMICS IN FOOD NARRATIVES Whale as Dish: Culinary Rhetoric and the Discourse of Power in Moby-Dick; R.Tally Domestic Discomfort and Dinner Table Shenanigans: Catharine Beecher Dines in with Our Nig; M.Drews 'Bonbons in abundance': The Politics of Sweetness in Kate Chopin's Fiction; A.Dix & L.Piatti 'You don't know what a good manager I could be': Managing Class and Consumerism in Catherine Owen's Cookbook Novels; K.Cohen PART III: PALATABLE VIRTUES: MODELS OF CITIZENSHIP AND THE NATIONAL CUISINE Doughnuts and Gingerbread, Apples and Pears: Boyhood Food Economies in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Series Books For Children; L.Cohoon The Kitchen as Moral Territory; K.Sloan Food for Thought: Dinnertable Discourse, Dyspepsia, and Hawthorne's Ruminations on Old and New England; M.Elbert The Edible Book: White Female Sexuality and Novel Reading; C.LeFavour PART IV: MAN DOES NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE: THE PARADOX OF SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT Searching for Eupepsia: Bronson Alcott, the Hunger Artist; R.Bellin Strawberries and Salt: Food Preparation as Moral Education in Alcott's Little Women; Y.Pelletier ' This foreshadowed Food': Representations of Food and Hunger in Emily Dickinson's American Gothic'; E.Andrews Austin's Consuming 'Desertness' in The Land of Little Rain; B.Hume