Making a Man: Gentlemanly Appetites in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

by Gwen Hyman

Book Overview

Gruel and truffles, wine and gin, opium and cocaine. Making a Man: Gentlemanly Appetites in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel addresses consumption of food, drink, and drugs in the conspicuously consuming nineteenth century in order to explore the question of what, in fact, makes a man in novels of the period. Gwen Hyman analyzes the rituals of dining room, drawing room, opium den, and cocaine lab, and the ways in which these alimentary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821418548
• ISBN13: 9780821418543
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"