A delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of nineteenth-century men and women

What people ate used to be considered marginal and insignificant. CONSUMING PASSIONS shows how that picture is changing. This collection of essays reveals that

Book on dynamics of popular culture.

As any reader of the Symposium knows, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates conversed over lavish banquets, kept watch on who was eating too much fish, and imb