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"Take, eat": food imagery, the nurturing ethic, and Christian identity in The Wide, Wide World, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

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From: Christianity and Literature
Date: 20070622
Author:Naranjo-Huebl, Linda

Depictions of food and food preparation pervade American sentimental and domestic novels of the nineteenth century. Food and consumption imagery is ubiquitous in Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Harriet Jacobs's autobiographical Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. In The Wide, Wide World, which proves a rich resource for documentation of early nineteenth-century New England cooking, Warner concludes a page-long description of Ellen's preparation of her mother's tea by noting, "[a]ll this Ellen did with the zeal that love gives, ...

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