Food, Drink, and the Written Word in Britain, 1820-1945

Mary Addyman recently completed her PhD at the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK Laura Wood recently completed her PhD at the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK Christopher Yiannitsaros recently completed his PhD at the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK

Introduction

Mary Addyman, Laura Wood, and Christopher Yiannitsaros

Part I – Devouring Didacticism: Feeding Young Minds

Chapter 1 – Sweet Poison: Food Adulteration and Fiction

Laura Wood

Chapter 2 – Onions and Honey, Roast Spiders and Chutney: Unusual Appetites and Disorderly Consumption in Edward Lear’s Nonsense Verse

Charlotte Boyce

Part II – An Appetite for Change: Hunger and Nineteenth-Century Society

Chapter 3 – The Rhetoric of Taste: Reform, Hunger and Consumption in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton

Lesa Scholl

Chapter 4 – Feeding the Vampire: The Ravenous Hunger of the Fin de Siècle

Angelica Michelis

Part III – The Power of the Printed Word: Advertising and Markets

Chapter 5 – ‘A change comes over the spirit of your vision’: Champagne in Britain

Graham Harding

Chapter 6 – The Language of Advertising: Fashioning Health Consumers at the Fin de Siècle

Lesley Steinitz

Part IV – Into the Twentieth Century: Legacies and Memories

Chapter 7 – ‘Yes, We had no Bananas’: Sharing Memories of the Second World War

Corinna Peniston-Bird

Chapter 8 – Meeting Mrs Beeton: The Personal is Political in the Recipe Book

Margaret Beetham

Conclusion

‘All else is vain, but eating is real’: Gustatory Bodies

Mary Addyman