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Drink in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 2014 Edition

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    Author(s)Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp
    PublisherTaylor & Francis
    ISBN9781848934368
    Pages256
    BindingHardback
    LanguageEnglish
    Publish YearFebruary 2014

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    Taylor & Francis Drink in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 2014 Edition by Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp

    This collection of essays covers the representation and practice of drinking a variety of beverages across eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and North America. The case studies in this volume cover drinking culture from a variety of perspectives, including literature, history, anthropology and the history of medicine. Table of contents :- Introduction - Susanne Schmid and Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp Part I: Ritual and Material Culture 1 Politics by Design: Consumption, Identity and Allegiance - Karen Harvey 2 Drinks, Domesticity and the Forging of an American Identity in Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World (1850) - Caroline Rosenthal Part II: Institutions and Social Class 3 Cafe or Coffeehouse? Transnational Histories of Coffee and Sociability - Brian Cowan 4 Claret at a Premium: Ned Ward, the True Tory Defender of Fine Wines? - Fritz-Wilhelm Neumann 5 Eighteenth-Century Travellers and the Country Inn - Susanne Schmid 6 Drinking, Fighting and Working-Class Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Britain - John Carter Wood Part III: Temperance and the Misery of Alcohol 7 Romantic Radicalism and the Temperance Movement - Rolf Lessenich 8 The Myth of 'Misery Alcoholism' in Early Industrial England: The Example of Manchester - Gunther Hirschfelder Part IV: Intoxication and Therapy 9 Alcohol, Sympathy and Ideology in George Gissing's The Nether World (1889) and The Odd Women (1893) - Anja Muller-Wood 10 Legends of Infernal Drinkers: Representations of Alcohol in Thomas Hardy and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction - Norbert Lennartz 11 The Spirit of Medicine: The Use of Alcohol in Nineteenth-Century Medical Practice - Jonathan Reinarz and Rebecca Wynter Part V: Case Studies: Rum, Cocoa and Magical Potions 12 'Been to Barbados': Rum(bullion), Race, the Gaspee and the American Revolution - Eva-Sabine Zehelein 13 A Beverage for the Masses: The Democratization of Cocoa in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction - Monika Elbert 14 The Power of the Potion: From Gothic Horror to Health Drink, or, How the Elixir became a Commodity - Elmar Schenkel