Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Introduction; PART I: Devouring didacticism: Feeding young minds; 1 Sweet poison: Food adulteration, fiction and the young glutton; 2 Onions and honey, roast spiders and chutney: Unusual appetites and disorderly consumption in Edward Lear's nonsense verse; PART II: An appetite for change: Hunger and nineteenth-century society; 3 The rhetoric of taste: Reform, hunger and consumption in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton; 4 Feeding the vampire: the ravenous hunger of the fin de siècle
PART III: The power of the printed word: Advertising and markets5 'A change comes over the spirit of your vision': Champagne in Britain, 1860-1914; 6 The language of advertising: Fashioning health food consumers at the fin de siècle; PART IV: Into the twentieth century: Legacies and memories; 7 'Yes, we had no bananas': Sharing memories of the Second World War; 8 Meeting Mrs Beeton: the personal is political in the recipe book; Conclusion: 'All else is vain, but eating is real': Gustatory bodies; List of contributors; Index
