Description
Book SynopsisBourgeois Consumption looks at how the middle classes in late nineteenth-century London and Paris used food and dining as forms of social expression and identity. This engaging treatise about how class and gender informed peopleâs eating habits focuses on the complex interactions between bodies, ritual and identity. -- .
Trade Review'A thoroughly researched comparative study of 19th-century bourgeois dining culture through the interpretive lens of transnational identity formation.... Rich's book shines in its wealth of observations on the particulars of middle-class dining culture, including explanations for the origins ...Summing Up: Recommended.'
B. L. Herman, CHOICE, 01/04/2012
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Table of ContentsFigures
Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Eating by the Rules: Prescriptive Literature and the Dissemination of Knowledge
2. Family dinners: timekeeping, privacy and women’s knowledge
3. Dinner Parties: Ideal versus Experience
4. Respectable restaurants and the commercialisation of dinner
5. Members and Subscribers Only: Clubs and Banquets
Conclusion
Bibliography
