The anthology was inspired by the observed relative absence of breakfast in literature, first pointed out by a character in a novel--not complaining, mind you, just mentioning. Scholars of English literature explore food culture during the two centuries from such perspectives as badly-boiled potatoes and other crises, fetishism and signification in Our Mutual Friend, national identity and Victorian Christmas foods, and the Queen's coffee and Casanova's chocolate for breakfast in France. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century aims to bring together detailed analyses of the cultural myths, or fictions, of consumption that have shaped discourses on consumer practices from the eighteenth century onwards.