Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America
Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America revolves around the 1840 presidential election when, according to campaign slogans, candidates were what they ate. Skillfully deploying the rhetoric of republican simplicity-the belief that plain dress, food, and manners were signs of virtue in the young republic-William Henry Harrison defeated Martin Van Buren by aligning the incumbent with the European luxuries of pâté de foie gras and soupe à la reine while maintaining that he survived on raw beef without salt. The effectiveness of such claims reflected not only the continuing appeal of the frontier and the relatively primitive nature of Ame…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7591-2096-9
- EAN: 9780759120969
- Produktnummer: 22948782
- Verlag: AltaMira Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 220 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 24'745 KB
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