Mary Addyman recently completed her PhD at the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UKLaura Wood recently completed her PhD at the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UKChristopher Yiannitsaros recently completed his PhD at the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK

• IntroductionMary Addyman, Laura Wood, and Christopher YiannitsarosPart I – Devouring Didacticism: Feeding Young MindsChapter 1 – Sweet Poison: Food Adulteration and FictionLaura WoodChapter 2 – Onions and Honey, Roast Spiders and Chutney: Unusual Appetites and Disorderly Consumption in Edward Lear’s Nonsense VerseCharlotte BoycePart II – An Appetite for Change: Hunger and Nineteenth-Century SocietyChapter 3 – The Rhetoric of Taste: Reform, Hunger and Consumption in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary BartonLesa SchollChapter 4 – Feeding the Vampire: The Ravenous Hunger of the Fin de SiècleAngelica MichelisPart III – The Power of the Printed Word: Advertising and MarketsChapter 5 – ‘A change comes over the spirit of your vision’: Champagne in BritainGraham HardingChapter 6 – The Language of Advertising: Fashioning Health Consumers at the Fin de SiècleLesley SteinitzPart IV – Into the Twentieth Century: Legacies and MemoriesChapter 7 – ‘Yes, We had no Bananas’: Sharing Memories of the Second World WarCorinna Peniston-BirdChapter 8 – Meeting Mrs Beeton: The Personal is Political in the Recipe BookMargaret BeethamConclusion‘All else is vain, but eating is real’: Gustatory BodiesMary Addyman