Racial indigestion : : eating bodies in the 19th century / / Kyla Wazana Tompkins.

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Superior document:America and the long 19th century
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Place / Publishing House:New York : : New York University Press,, [2012]
2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:America and the long 19th century.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (323 pages) :; illustrations (chiefly color).
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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 consumer citizenship at the end of the Nineteenth Century
  • Conclusion : racial indigestion.