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Food and the novel in nineteenth-century America / Mark McWilliams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McWilliams, Mark.
- Series:
- Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy
- AltaMira studies in food and gastronomy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Food in literature.
- Cooking in literature.
- Food habits in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Tracing dramatic changes in how Americans ate during the 1800's, Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America argues that novelists, along with writers of cookbooks and domestic guides, helped negotiate the meaning of these changes in ways that still shape how Americans eat today.
- Contents:
- Introduction : conflicting tastes
- Old food in a new land
- Wholesome food for a wholesome people
- Revolution in the kitchen
- Good women bake good biscuits
- Dining out in the novel
- Eating nostalgia
- Afterword: food and the novel in America.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-32242-9
- 1-280-87143-1
- 9786613713445
- 0-7591-2096-X
- OCLC:
- 802049885
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