Food and the novel in nineteenth-century America / Mark McWilliams.

Tracing dramatic changes in how Americans ate during the 1800s, Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America argues that novelists, along with writers of cookbooks and domestic guides, helped negotiate the meaning of these changes in ways that still shape how Americans eat today.

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Online Access: Full text (Emerson users only)
Main Author: McWilliams, Mark
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012.
Series:Studies in food and gastronomy.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary:Tracing dramatic changes in how Americans ate during the 1800s, Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America argues that novelists, along with writers of cookbooks and domestic guides, helped negotiate the meaning of these changes in ways that still shape how Americans eat today.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xx, 199 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780759120969
075912096X
1280871431
9781280871436
0759120943
9780759120945
9786613713445
6613713449
Language:English.