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