Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century (America and the Long 19th Century)

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century

1. Kitchen Insurrections

2. “She Made the Table a Snare to Them”: Sylvester Graham’s Imperial Dietetics

3. “Everything ’Cept Eat Us”: The Mouth as Political Organ in the Antebellum Novel

4. A Wholesome Girl: Addiction, Grahamite Dietetics, and Louisa May Alcott’s Rose Campbell Novels

5. “What’s De Use Talking ’Bout Dem ’Mendments?”:Trade Cards and Consumer Citizenship at the End of the Nineteenth Century

Conclusion: Racial Indigestion

Notes
Bibliography
Index
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