Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century Narratives of Consumption, 1700D1900

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