Table of Contents: 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.

Table of Contents:

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.