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Kathryn Cornell Dolan , Beyond the Fruited Plain: Food and Agriculture in U.S. Literature, 1850-1905 (Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2014, £46.50). Pp. 248. isbn 978 0 8032 4988 2 .
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Over the past decade, cultural histories of US food and restaurant culture such as Cindy R. Lobel's Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York (2014), Andrew P. Haley's Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class (2012), Harvey Levenstein's Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet (2003), and Pysche Williams-Forson's Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food and Power (2006), and literary studies such as Marie Drews and Monica Elbert's Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2009), Kyla Wazana Tompkins's Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century (2012), and Allison Carruth's Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food (2013), have done much to reshape the alimentary landscape of nineteenth-century American literary study. Kathryn Cornell Dolan's Beyond the Fruited Plain contributes to this conversation by turning our attention from what, where, or why nineteenth-century Americans ate to the shifting spaces and cultural as well as technological machinery that at once produced and transformed their food.
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