Description: Racial indigestion

Main Author:	Tompkins, Kyla Wazana.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2012]
Physical Description:	xiii, 275 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Series:	America and the long 19th century.
Subjects:	Graham, Sylvester, -- 1794-1851. Alcott, Louisa May, -- 1832-1888 -- Criticism and interpretation. Food habits -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Diet -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Cooking -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Human body -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Food in literature. United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.

Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : eating bodies in the nineteenth century -- Kitchen insurrections -- "She made the table a snare to them" : Sylvester Graham's imperial dietetics -- "Everything 'cept eat us" : the mouth as political organ in the antebellum novel -- A wholesome girl : addiction, Grahamite dietetics and Louisa May Alcott's Rose -- Campbell novels -- "What's de use talking 'bout dem 'mendments?" : trade cards and late nineteenth- -- Century consumer citizenship -- Conclusion : racial indigestion.
Physical Description:	xiii, 275 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780814770023 0814770029 9780814770030 0814770037 9780814770054 0814770053 9780814738375 0814738370