Explores links between food, visual & literary culture in 19th century USA to reveal how eating produces political subjects by justifying social discourses that create bodily meaning. Combing through visually stunning & rare archives, it tells the story of the consolidation of n…
The act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consumes the object being eaten. At the same time, eating performs a kind of vulnerability to the world, revealing a fundamental interdependence between the eater and that which exists outside her body. Racial Indigesti…
This book explores the links between food, visual and literary culture in the nineteenth-century United States to reveal how eating produces political subjects by justifying the social discourses that create bodily meaning. Using an archive of children's literature, architectura…