Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century: Narratives of Consumption, 1700D1900

by Tamara S. Wagner, Narin Hassan, Sumangala Bhattacharya, James Gregory, Ron Broglio

Overview

Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century aims to bring together detailed analyses of the cultural myths, or fictions, of consumption that have shaped discourses on consumer practices from the eighteenth century onwards. Individual essays provide an excitingly diverse range of perspectives, including musicology, philosophy, history, and art history, cultural and postcolonial studies as well as the study of literature in English, French, and German. The broad scope of this collection will engage audience both inside and outside academia interested in the politics of food and consumption in eighteenth and nineteenth century culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739112076
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	04/26/2007
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	6.63(w) x 9.38(h) x 1.08(d)

About the Author

Tamara S. Wagner is Associate Professor of English Literature at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Narin Hassan is Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at Georgia Tech University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Part 2 Part I: Production and Presentation: Making Food Fictions
Chapter 3 Badly-Boiled Potatoes and Other Crises
Chapter 4 Vegetable Fictions in the Kingdom of Roast Beef: Representing the Vegetarian in Victorian Literature
Chapter 5 "The Best Machine for Converting Herbage into Money": Romantic Cattle Culture
Chapter 6 Mobial Consumption: Stability, Flux and Interpermeability in "Mrs Beeton"
Chapter 7 Consuming the Maidservant
Part 8 Part II: Victorian Spectacles of Consumption
Chapter 9 Pot-Bellied Salt-Cellars and Talking Plates: Fetishism and Signification in Our Mutual Friend
Chapter 10 Eating in the Contact Zone: Food and Identity in Anglo-India
Chapter 11 Between Alimentary Products and the Art of Cooking: The Industrialisation of Eating at the World Fairs - 1888/1893
Chapter 12 Foreign Tastes and "Manchester Tea-Parties": Eating and Drinking with the Victorian Lower Orders
Chapter 13 National Identity and Victorian Christmas Foods
Chapter 14 Rewriting the Puritan Past: Food and Illicit Desires in Hawthorne's Fiction
Chapter 15 What Katy Ate: Girls Eating and Reading in Classic Nineteenth-Century American Children's Fiction
Part 16 Part III: Blood, Blockage, and Regurgitation: The Consumer's Modernity
Chapter 17 The Queen's Coffee and Casanova's Chocolate: The Early Modern Breakfast in France
Chapter 18 Kantstipation
Chapter 19 A Chubby Orpheus: Handel's Corpulence as a Prerogative of Genius
Chapter 20 The Insatiable I: Consumption and Desire in the Baudelairian Aesthetic
Chapter 21 "No Mere Modernity": Biopolitics, Media, and the Breeding of the Modern Consumer in Bram Stoker's Dracula