Ebook: Food, drink, and the written word in Britain, 1820-1945

Introduction / Mary Addyman, Laura Wood, and Christopher Yiannitsaros -- Devouring didacticism: feeding young minds. Sweet poison: food adulteration, fiction and the young glutton / Laura Wood -- Onions and honey, roast spiders and chutney: unusual appetites and disorderly consumption in Edward Lear's nonsense verse / Charlotte Boyce -- An appetite for change: hunger and nineteenth-century society. The rhetoric of taste: reform, hunger and consumption in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton / Lesa Scholl -- Feeding the vampire: the ravenous hunger of the fin de siècle / Angelica Michelis -- The power of the printed word: advertising and markets. A change comes over the spirit of your vision: champagne in Britain, 1860-1914 / Graham Harding -- The language of advertising: fashioning health consumers at the fin de siècle / Lesley Steinitz -- Into the twentieth century: legacies and memories. Yes, we had no bananas: sharing memories of the Second World War / Corinna Peniston-Bird -- Meeting Mrs Beeton: the personal is political in the recipe book / Margaret Beetham -- Conclusion: all else is vain, but eating is real: gustatory bodies / Mary Addyman.