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