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.

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. Individual essays provide an excitingly diverse range of perspectives, including musicology, philosophy, history, and art history, cultural and postcolonial studies as well as the study of literature in English, French, and German. The broad scope of this collection will engage audience both inside and outside academia interested in the politics of food and consumption in eighteenth and nineteenth century culture.

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2
Chapter I: Production and Presentation: Making Food Fictions
Chapter 3 Badly-Boiled Potatoes and Other Crises
Chapter 4 Vegetable Fictions in the Kingdom of Roast Beef: Representing the Vegetarian in Victorian Literature
Chapter 5 The Best Machine for Converting Herbage into Money: Romantic Cattle Culture
Chapter 6 Mobial Consumption: Stability, Flux and Interpermeability in Mrs Beeton
Chapter 7 Consuming the Maidservant
Chapter 8
Chapter II: Victorian Spectacles of Consumption
Chapter 9 Pot-Bellied Salt-Cellars and Talking Plates: Fetishism and Signification in Our Mutual Friend
Chapter 10 Eating in the Contact Zone: Food and Identity in Anglo-India
Chapter 11 Between Alimentary Products and the Art of Cooking: The Industrialisation of Eating at the World Fairs - 1888/1893
Chapter 12 Foreign Tastes and Manchester Tea-Parties: Eating and Drinking with the Victorian Lower Orders
Chapter 13 National Identity and Victorian Christmas Foods
Chapter 14 Rewriting the Puritan Past: Food and Illicit Desires in Hawthorne's Fiction
Chapter 15 What Katy Ate: Girls Eating and Reading in Classic Nineteenth-Century American Children's Fiction
Chapter 16
Chapter III: Blood, Blockage, and Regurgitation: The Consumer's Modernity
Chapter 17 The Queen's Coffee and Casanova's Chocolate: The Early Modern Breakfast in France
Chapter 18 Kantstipation
Chapter 19 A Chubby Orpheus: Handel's Corpulence as a Prerogative of Genius
Chapter 20 The Insatiable I: Consumption and Desire in the Baudelairian Aesthetic
Chapter 21 No Mere Modernity: Biopolitics, Media, and the Breeding of the Modern Consumer in Bram Stoker's Dracula