Print version: Tompkins, Kyla Wazana. Racial indigestion : eating bodies in the 19th century. New York : New York University Press, [2012] xiii, 275 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates ; 23 cm America and the long 19th century ISBN 9780814770023
Includes bibliographical references and index
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 consumer citizenship at the end of the Nineteenth Century -- Conclusion : racial indigestion.