Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters

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.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-11-09

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349379828

DOI: 10.1057/9780230103146

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 267