Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters

Name: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan US
SKU: 9781349379828
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Drews, M.; Elbert, M.

Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines the preponderance of food imagery in nineteenth-century literary texts. Contributors to this volume analyze the social, political, and cultural implications of scenes involving food and dining and illustrate how "aesthetic" notions of culinary preparation are often undercut by the actual practices of cooking and eating. As contributors interrogate the values and meanings behind culinary discourses, they complicate commonplace notions about American identity and question the power structure behind food production and consumption.