Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century

Introduction : Eating Bodies In The Nineteenth Century -- Kitchen Insurrections -- She Made The Table A Snare To Them : Sylvester Graham's Imperial Dietetics -- Everything 'cept Eat Us : The Mouth As Political Organ In The Antebellum Novel -- A Wholesome Girl : Addiction, Grahamite Dietetics And Louisa May Alcott's Rose -- Campbell Novels -- What's De Use Talking 'bout Dem 'mendments? : Trade Cards And Late Nineteenth- -- Century Consumer Citizenship -- Conclusion : Racial Indigestion. Kyla Wazana Tompkins. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.