{"product_id":"the-harlequin-eaters-9781517915902","title":"The Harlequin Eaters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow representations of the preparation, sale, and consumption of leftovers in nineteenth-century urban France link socioeconomic and aesthetic history\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The concept of the “harlequin” refers to the practice of reassembling dinner scraps cleared from the plates of the wealthy to sell, replated, to the poor in nineteenth-century Paris. In \u003ci\u003eThe Harlequin Eaters, \u003c\/i\u003eJanet Beizer investigates how the alimentary harlequin evolved in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from the earlier, similarly patchworked Commedia dell’arte Harlequin character and can be used to rethink the entangled place of class, race, and food in the longer history of modernism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e By superimposing figurations of the edible harlequin taken from a broad array of popular and canonical novels, newspaper articles, postcard photographs, and lithographs, Beizer shows that what is at stake in nineteenth-century discourses surrounding this mixed meal are repres\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MP - University Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885934522711,"sku":"9781517915902","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781517915902.jpg?v=1722538220","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-harlequin-eaters-9781517915902","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}