| Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in Nineteenth-Century American Literature 2009 Edition Contributor(s): Drews, M. (Editor), Elbert, M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0230616283 ISBN-13: 9780230616288 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $99.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2009 Annotation: This study inspects the preponderance and significance of food imagery in literary texts by nineteenth-century American writers. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 810.935 |
| LCCN: 2010278332 |
| Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (1.00 lbs) 267 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |