Author: Caroline Howard GilmanPublisher:
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Recollections of a New England Bride and of a Southern Matron
Author: Caroline Howard GilmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Recollections of a Southern Matron ; And, A New England Bride
Author: Caroline GilmanFood and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America
Author: Mark McWilliamsPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 075912096X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America revolves around the 1840 presidential election when, according to campaign slogans, candidates were what they ate. Skillfully deploying the rhetoric of republican simplicity—the belief that plain dress, food, and manners were signs of virtue in the young republic—William Henry Harrison defeated Martin Van Buren by aligning the incumbent with the European luxuries of pâté de foie gras and soupe à la reine while maintaining that he survived on “raw beef without salt.” The effectiveness of such claims reflected not only the continuing appeal of the frontier and the relatively primitive nature of American cooking, but also a rhetorical struggle to define how eating habits and culinary practices fit into ideas of the American character. From this crucial mid-century debate, the book’s argument reaches back to examine the formation of the myth of republican simplicity in revolutionary America and forward to the popularization of cosmopolitan sophistication during the Gilded Age. Drawing heavily on cookbooks, domestic manuals, travel writing, and the popular press, this historical framework structures a discussion of ways novelists use food to locate characters within their fictional worlds, evoking or contesting deeply held social beliefs about gender, class, and race. In addition to mid-century novelists like Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Warner, the book examines popular and canonical novels by writers as diverse as Lydia Maria Child, James Fenimore Cooper, Susanna Rowson, Catharine Sedgwick, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, and Harriet Wilson. Some of these authors also wrote domestic manuals and cookbooks. In addition, McWilliams draws on a wide range of such work by William Alcott, Catharine Beecher, Eliza Leslie, Fannie Merrit Farmer, Maria Parloa, and others.
Recollections of a New England Bride and of a Southern Matron
Author: Caroline Howard GilmanPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Women of the South Distinguished in Literature
Author: Mary ForrestPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Women of the South Distinguished in Lite
Author: Julia FreemanPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429015721
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Catalogue of Books in the Mercantile Library, of the City of New York
Author: Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-YorkPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Notabilities in France and England
Author: Philarète ChaslesPublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publications of the Southern History Association ...
Author: Southern History AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Index to the Catalogue of Books of the Mercantile Library Association of Boston
Author: Mercantile Library Association (Boston, Mass.)Publisher:
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description