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Author: Rachel Rich ,
Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.431kg
ISBN: 9780719081125
ISBN 10: 0719081122
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 June 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'A thoroughly researched comparative study of 19th-century bourgeois dining culture through the interpretive lens of transnational identity formation... Rich's book shines in its wealth of observations on the particulars of middle-class dining culture, including explanations for the origins ...Summing Up: Recommended.' B. L. Herman, CHOICE, 01/04/2012 -- B. L. Herman,. CHOICE
Historian Rich (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK) provides a thoroughly researched comparative study of 19th-century bourgeois dining culture through the interpretive lens of transnational identity formation. Examining contexts of prescriptive literature, domestic dining, dinner parties, restaurants, and private clubs, Rich advances a compelling argument that the rising urban middle classes of London and Paris tapped into a shared class-based food culture defined by evolving eating habits. Although her title and introduction claim that her analysis arises from considerations of dining spaces, her use of spatial theory and the evidence of architecture remain largely undeveloped. Her deployment of ideology in a critical approach to identity formation is similarly unarticulated. Rich's book shines in its wealth of observations on the particulars of middle-class dining culture, including explanations for the origins for prix fixe menus, the relationship between conversation and cuisine, and the evolution of cookbooks. Still, readers will want a more vibrant human dimension than Rich provides in her eaters and eating -centered exploration of transnational identity formation. She certainly has the facts in hand that would enable her to use individual situations to enliven and enrich the broad historical patterns she persuasively describes. Summing Up: Recommended. For research libraries. -- B. L. Herman, CHOICE 20120401
'A thoroughly researched comparative study of 19th-century bourgeois dining culture through the interpretive lens of transnational identity formation.... Rich's book shines in its wealth of observations on the particulars of middle-class dining culture, including explanations for the origins ...Summing Up: Recommended.' B. L. Herman, CHOICE, 01/04/2012 -- .
Author Information
Rachel Rich teaches history at Leeds Metropolitan University.
