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2020-05-12
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An Archive of Taste

Race and Eating in the Early United States

av Lauren F Klein
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A groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature There is no eating in the archive. This is not only a practical admonition to any would-be researcher but also a methodological challenge, in that there is no eatingor, at least, no foodpreserved among the printed records of the early United States. Synthesizing a range of textual artifacts with accounts (both real and imagined) of foods harvested, dishes prepared, and meals consumed, An Archive of Taste reveals how a focus on eating allows us to rethink the nature and significance of aesthetics in early America, as well as of its archive. Lauren F. Klein considers eating and early American aesthetics together, reframing the philosophical work of food and its meaning for the people who prepare, serve, and consume it. She tells the story of how eating emerged as an aesthetic activity over the course of the eighteenth century and how it subsequently transformed into a means of expressing both allegiance and resistance to the dominant Enlightenment worldview. Klein offers richly layered accounts of the enslaved men and women who cooked the meals of the nations founders and, in doing so, directly affected the development of our national culturefrom Thomas Jeffersons emancipation agreement with his enslaved chef to Malinda Russells Domestic Cookbook, the first African Americanauthored culinary text. The first book to examine the gustatory origins of aesthetic taste in early American literature, An Archive of Taste shows how thinking about eating can help to tell new stories about the range of people who worked to establish a cultural foundation for the United States.
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"In An Archive of Taste, Lauren F. Kleins old-fashioned archival work and new-era computational skills grant access to subterranean literary narratives, reanimating matters hard to locate, much less taste or see. Kleins welcome meditations on absent chefs and occluded stories bring new insights to early American literature."Rafia Zafar, author of Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning "An Archive of Taste is a gorgeously written account of the relation between eating, the archive, and the histories of racial exclusion that shape them both. Lauren F. Klein offers a new frame for understanding the eighteenth-century category of taste, as well as a sharp exploration of the affordances and limits of digital humanities methodologies efforts to redress the imbrication of race and the archive."Monique Allewaert, author of Ariels Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics "Kleins probing, careful, self-reflective analysis becomes a model for us as readers as well, and enables us to engage in a speculative reading of a book that, no doubt, will be much-cited because it offers an inspiration and paradigm for future work."American Literary History "Across all five chapters, Klein discerns an abundant archive of taste, even as her capacious analysis confronts that archives unique risks of perishability."Early American Literature "An Archive of Taste makes an important intervention into the fields of nineteenth-century literary studies and food studies through thoughtful citational and archival practices. Importantly, it also bridges established and emergent conversations on the challenges of archival recover, typically written in analog, with digital research."Criticism

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Lauren F. Klein is associate professor in the departments of English and Quantitative Theory and Methods at Emory University. She is coeditor of the Debates in Digital Humanities series at Minnesota.

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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: No Eating in the Archive 1. Taste: Eating and Aesthetics in the Early Republic 2. Appetite: Eating, Embodiment, and the Tasteful Subject 3. Satisfaction: Aesthetics, Speculation, and the Theory of Cookbooks 4. Imagination: Food, Fiction, and the Limits of Taste 5. Absence: Slavery and Silence in the Archive of Eating Epilogue: Two Portraits of Taste Notes Bibliography Index

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