CONTENTS

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

List of Contributors

pp xi-xiv

List of Figures and Tables

pp xv-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-10

Part I - Ritual and Material Culture

1 - Politics by Design: Consumption, Identity and Allegiance

pp 11-22

2 - Drinks, Domesticity and the Forging of an American Identity in Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World (1850)

pp 23-34

Part II - Institutions and Social Class

3 - Café or Coffeehouse? Transnational Histories of Coffee and Sociability

pp 35-46

4 - Claret at a Premium: Ned Ward, the True Tory Defender of Fine Wines?

pp 47-58

5 - Eighteenth-Century Travellers and the Country Inn

pp 59-70

6 - Drinking, Fighting and Working-Class Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Britain

pp 71-80

Part III - Temperance and the Misery of Alcohol

7 - Romantic Radicalism and the Temperance Movement

pp 81-90

8 - The Myth of ‘Misery Alcoholism’ in Early Industrial England: The Example of Manchester

pp 91-102

Part IV - Intoxication and Therapy

9 - Alcohol, Sympathy and Ideology in George Gissing's The Nether World (1889) and The Odd Women (1893)

pp 103-114

10 - Legends of Infernal Drinkers: Representations of Alcohol in Thomas Hardy and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

pp 115-126

11 - The Spirit of Medicine: The Use of Alcohol in Nineteenth-Century Medical Practice

pp 127-140

Part V - Case Studies: Rum, Cocoa and Magical Potions

12 - ‘Been to Barbados’: Rum(bullion), Race, the Gaspée and the American Revolution

pp 141-150

13 - A Beverage for the Masses: The Democratization of Cocoa in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction

pp 151-166

14 - The Power of the Potion: From Gothic Horror to Health Drink, or, How the Elixir became a Commodity

pp 167-180

Notes

pp 181-224

Index

pp 225-229