| Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in Nineteenth-Century American Literature 2009 Edition Contributor(s): Drews, M. (Editor), Elbert, M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1349379824 ISBN-13: 9781349379828 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Social Science | Popular Culture - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 810.935 |
| Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.71 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. |