Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century

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.

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