Index
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
abolition: and Franklin, 187n23, 188n36; and gradualism, 26–27, 41; and Jefferson, 30–31, 33, 46–47; and personal taste, 111, 118; and temperance, 30–31
abolitionist fiction, 19, 118, 124; ideology of taste and, 110–11. See also Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Achatz, Grant, 10
Adams, John, 184n5; on intemperance, 182n15
Addison, Joseph, 13, 71, 72, 178n25
aesthetics: and cookbooks, 82, 103–4; and democracy, 132; and eating, 2; and food, 84; and interpretation, 24; origins of term, 83; and Simmons, 95, 103–4; and slavery, 107–8; as speculative, 83–84; speculative aesthetics, 190n4, 190n10; and taste, 7, 11–13, 17–18, 23–26, 83, 178nn22–24
aesthetic theory, 70–71, 173; and eating, 202n7; and narrative, 18; and politics, 108; and republican taste, 84; of Russell, 89, 93–94; speculative dimension of, 190n10; of Wheatley, 70–71
affect: transmission of, 88
agriculture: and cultivation, 33–38, 102, 182n20, 182n22; and education, 36; and Jefferson, 33–34, 35–37, 179n4, 182n20; and Madison, 33–38, 102, 182n20, 182n22; and taste, 35–36; and temperance, 44
Almanach des Gourmands (Grimod), 49, 60, 63–68, 184n2; the body in, 64; frontispieces for, 64–66, 65, 67, 76, 188n32; Tasting Jury of, 65–66, 76, 78, 188nn33–34. See also Grimod de la Reynière, Alexandre Balthazar
American Anti-Slavery Society, 118
American Cookery (Simmons), 84, 99, 140; aesthetic considerations in, 103–4; and cultivation of taste, 98; orphanhood trope in, 92–95, 98; publication history of, 92; recipes in, 96–97, 99, 192n27; title page, 94. See also Simmons, Amelia
Amin, Shahid, 200n12
appetite: and animality, 56, 63; cultivation of, 75; and discourse of taste, 51, 54, 63–64; and excess, 52; and Franklin, 50, 54, 55, 57–62, 72, 79, 123–24, 184n5, 186n16, 186n19, 186n21; and Grimod, 49, 50, 59, 60–61; of Keimer, 55–56, 59, 75; and reason, 50, 52, 57, 66–67, 72, 186n19, 187n21; and republican taste, 47; and taste, 50–51, 62, 186n21
archival silence, 20, 136–37; and digital humanities, 140; and slavery, 142–43
archive, the: digitization of, 138–40, 159, 199n10; and eating, 1–3, 8–10, 15–16, 48, 76, 79, 140–42, 163, 169; and farming, 131; and food, 16, 137; of James Hemings, 19, 44–45, 46, 137, 138, 141–42, 146, 155; of postcolonial studies, 200n12; of republican taste, 44; and slavery, 15–16, 111, 141–42, 145, 200n12; and technology, 137–38; of Washington, 15
archives: of early United States, 8–9; of Jefferson, 136–41, 139, 147, 150–51, 158–59, 199n4, 200n19. See also archive, the
Aristotle, 50
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The, 54–56, 91, 185n13, 185n16, 188n41. See also Franklin, Benjamin
Balibar, Etienne, 28
Bastian, Jeanette, 141
Baumgarten, Alexander, 12, 178n23, 190n9
Bedini, Silvio A., 199n4
Bellini, Charles, 35–36
Berlant, Lauren, 7
Bernstein, Robin, 95–96
Berry, Wendell, 182n20
Bertelsen, Lance, 183n27
Best, Stephen, 142, 146, 151, 179n33
Blackwood, Sarah, 194n1
Boswell, James, 58
Bourdieu, Pierre, 11, 13, 176n11
Bradbury, Theophilus, 176n7
Brant, Irving, 34
Brennan, Teresa, 88
Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme, 22, 32, 61
Brissot, Jacques, 183n25
Brunias, Agostino, 202n6
Buck-Morss, Susan, 45–47
Burke, Edmund, 23
Bynum, Tara, 70
Cahill, Edward, 12; on aesthetic, 83; on dialectic of liberty, 23; on Wheatley, 70–71, 88
Calvin, John, 181n15
Campbell, Tunis, 81
capitalism: and satisfaction, 91; and slavery, 150
Carême, Marie-Antoine, 166
Carney, Judith Ann, 177n16
Carretta, Vincent, 73, 188n42, 189n43, 198n25
Carter, Susannah, 92
Castiglia, Christopher, 111
Castronovo, Russ, 198n24
Chapman, Maria Weston, 118
Child, Lydia Maria, 19, 112, 140, 195n7; archival research of, 196n11; and discourse of taste, 114; eating in, 120; Franklin, admiration of, 196n8; The Freedman’s Book, 127; The Frugal Housewife, 113, 114, 116, 195n7; Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times, 112, 114, 118, 119–24, 196n12; Incidents, editing of, 124, 127; Incidents, introduction to, 124; National Anti-Slavery Standard, editorship of, 118; publications, 113–14, 117–18; and sympathetic imagination, 129; and sympathetic taste, 130; taste in, 114–17, 125; “Willie Wharton,” 112, 120–24, 197n13. See also individual titles
Chun, Wendy H. K., 157, 201n25
citizenship: and agriculture, 36, 44; of black Americans, 39, 44, 98; and cultivated taste, 73; and cultivation, 36–38; and farming, 34; and republicanism, 24; and republican taste, 25; and taste, 14, 17, 25, 32, 38, 47, 73, 93–94, 110, 113, 119; and the tasteful subject, 53
civility, 51; and pleasure, 62
Clements, William L., 189n2
Cogliano, Francis, 199n4
Cohen, I. Bernard, 151
Colored Man’s Reminiscences of James Madison, A (Jennings), 24, 38, 44
computational analysis, 20, 141. See also data visualization
cookbooks, 92, 190n11; and aesthetics, 82, 103–4; African American–authored, 81–82; as descriptive form, 82; generic conventions of, 95; as narratives, 18; power dynamics in, 102; and race, 102; receipt books, 1; and subject formation, 98–99; as women’s genre, 82, 189n3. See also individual titles
Cooke, Jacob, 21
cooking: and aesthetics, 103–4; and agency, 95–97; and invisible labor, 158; labor of, 113, 158; and slavery, 102–4, 169, 193n31
Cooper, Anthony Ashley (Lord Shaftesbury), 12–13, 23, 185n8, 186n1, 190n8; on refinement, 74
Copley, John Singleton, 203n9
Crafts, Hannah, 196n13, 198n24
cultivation: agricultural, 33–38, 102, 182n20, 182n22; of appetite, 75; and citizenship, 36–38, 73; and labor, 102; of republican taste, 141; of taste, 24, 35–36, 52, 63–64, 72–75, 88, 97, 98, 107, 109–10, 119, 132; in Wheatley, 73; in “Willie Wharton,” 120–23
Custis, George Washington Parke, 3, 5
Dain, Bruce, 152
Daniels, Jonathan, 106
data visualization, 19, 141, 151–52, 170, 200n14; and bias, 155; of Hemings Papers, 148, 149–51, 157; of Jefferson correspondence, 143, 144–45
Davidson, Michael, 78
deformative criticism, 147
Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 45
Dickinson, Emily, 192n20
digital humanities, 147, 155; and archival silence, 140
digitization, 20, 169; of the archive, 138–40; and human labor, 199n10
Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock, 23
Dinner Table Bargain, 21–22, 179n1
disability studies, 185n11; prosthesis in, 78
Domestic Cookbook, A (Russell), 81–83, 140, 169, 189n2; aesthetic considerations in, 103–4; cover image, 86; influence of slave narratives on, 192n20; recipes in, 97–98; on satisfaction, 84, 107–8; and taste, 84. See also Russell, Malinda
domesticity: and civilization, 197n16; and whiteness, 122
Douglass, Frederick, 131, 196n13
Drews, Marie, 196n11
Dubey, Madhu, 111
Du Bois, W. E. B., 175n2
Du Bos, Jean Baptiste (l’Abbé Du Bos), 39
Dunbar, Erica Armstrong, 95, 179n32
Eagleton, Terry, 167, 191n13, 202n7
early American literary studies, 8, 15–16, 177n12
eating: as aesthetic expression, 2; and animality, 59; archival absence of, 1–3, 76, 79, 142, 169; and the archive, 15–16, 48, 140–41, 163; and cultivation of taste, 132; discourse of, 49; and the Enlightenment, 2; Franklin on, 185n16; in Hobomok, 196n12; and imagination, 132; in Incidents, 126; and Jefferson, 180n5; and Madison, 180n5; and nation, 120, 197n13; and racial formation, 7; and republicanism, 21–22, 180n5; speculative approach to, 82–83; and sympathy, 132; in “Willie Wharton,” 120
Elmer, Jonathan, 199n5
entrepreneurialism: in Incidents, 125–27; and national belonging, 91, 191n19; of Russell, 91, 125, 191n19
Eppes, Francis, 179n4
Equiano, Olaudah, 191n19
Erkkila, Betsy, 54
Evans, Robert J., 40
Evans, William, 135, 145, 150, 198n1; correspondence with Jefferson, 135–36, 138–40, 141, 143, 144–46, 159
excess, 23; and animality, 52; and appetite, 52; Grimod on, 52–53; and limits of taste, 50
Fable of the Bees (Mandeville), 56–57
farming, 33–34; archival absence of, 131; and citizenship, 34; and independence, 34; plantation farming, 37–38. See also agriculture
Farrish, Christopher, 102
Ferris, Marcie Cohen, 100
Fischer, Abby, 189n2
Fischer, Sibylle, 45
Folsom, Ed, 138
food: and aesthetics, 84; archival absence of, 137; archive of, 16; and cultivation of taste, 132; and culture, 176n11; discourse of, 177n12; and ideology, 3–4; and imagination, 132; and labor, 4; soul food, 194n42; and sympathy, 132; in Underground Railroad, 131
food studies, 8, 51, 176n10; archival silences in, 15
Francis, Convers, 125
Franklin, Benjamin, 13–14, 178n29; and abolition, 187n23, 188n36; appetite of, 50, 54, 55, 184n5, 186n16; on appetite, 57–59, 61–62, 72, 79, 123–24, 186n19, 186n21; “Dialogue between Franklin and the Gout,” 50, 54, 185n13; and discourse of taste, 52, 82, 87, 167; on discourse of taste, 53, 72, 75, 78–79, 109; on eating, 185n16; electricity, experiments with, 49–50; meeting with Wheatley, 68, 69, 70, 188n38; on slavery, 140, 187n23, 188n36; sugar in, 58, 74; taste in, 196n8; on temperance, 31
French Revolution, 22
Fretwell, Erica, 192n20
Frugal Housewife, The (Child), 113, 114, 116, 195n7. See also Child, Lydia Maria
Fuentes, Marisa, 15, 111, 141, 146
Gabriel’s Rebellion, 105–8, 193n40
Gadsby, John, 198n1
Garrison, William Lloyd, 117–18
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 68, 73
gender: and cookbooks, 89, 189n3; and tasteful subject, 53; and U.S. democracy, 95; in Wheatley, 72
Ghosh, Amitav, 200n12
ghosts: archival, 144, 146; and slavery, 142
Gigante, Denise, 66, 87, 176n5
Gilroy, Paul, 150
Glasse, Hannah, 92
Gonzalez, Jennifer, 201n25
Gordon-Reed, Annette, 25
Grimod de la Reynière, Alexandre Balthazar, 17–18, 20, 166; appetite of, 49, 50; on appetite, 59, 60–61; disability of, 60–61, 76, 78; and discourse of taste, 52, 82; on discourse of taste, 53, 72, 75, 78–79, 109, 167; embodied pleasure in, 65–66, 72, 79; on excess, 52–53; funeral dinner of, 59–63; on grand couvert, 60; influence of, 184n1; on secret rituals, 60; on tasteful subject, 53, 61, 63. See also Almanach des Gourmands
Gwinn, Peter, 198n25
Hafertepe, Kenneth, 182n18
Haitian Revolution, 45–47, 106, 137, 184n34, 194n43
Hale, Sarah Josepha, 122
Harris, Jessica, 200n14
Hartman, Saidiya, 15, 26, 141, 197n21; on archive of slavery, 111, 146, 150, 200n12; on Jacobs, 198n23
Hastings, Selina, 75
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 90
Hayles, N. Katherine, 190n4
Hemings, Harriet, 181n13
Hemings, James, 14, 24–25, 47, 135–36, 167; archival absence and presence of, 19, 21, 44–45, 46, 137, 138, 141–42, 146, 155; archival ghost of, 146; emancipation of, 17, 25–27, 27, 158; in Jefferson’s Farm-book, 155, 156, 158; and republican taste, 82, 142; Snow Eggs recipe, 160–61, 162–63; suicide of, 45, 136, 146, 150
Hemings, Sally, 14, 21, 25, 132, 181n13
Hercules (cook), 8–10, 14–15, 165, 202n2; escape of, 5, 6, 7–8, 176n8; misattributed portrait of, 20, 165–66, 168, 172, 202n6
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 113, 125
Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times (Child), 112, 114, 118, 119–24; eating in, 196n12; native foods in, 196n12; taste in, 119. See also Child, Lydia Maria
Holland, Sharon P., 51, 62, 185n10
Home, Henry (Lord Kames), 13, 14, 178n29, 182n18
Hooper, Harriet, 176n7
Horniblow, Molly, 125–28, 197n20
Horry, Harriott Pinckney, 198n2
House of the Seven Gables, The (Hawthorne), 90
humanism: and bias, 155
Hume, David, 13, 23, 58, 87, 178n29
imagination: and eating, 128; and food, 132; in Incidents, 128; limits of, 132; of possible futures, 111–13, 133; and race, 128–29, 131; and slave narratives, 128; sympathetic, 112, 123, 129; and taste, 111, 112, 129; and whiteness, 198n24
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Jacobs), 19, 124–30, 170, 194n1; author preface to, 124–25; Child introduction to, 124; comforts in, 126; eating in, 126; editing of, 124, 127; entrepreneurialism in, 125–27; hope in, 127–28; imagination in, 128; limits of taste in, 129; publication of, 124–25; violence in, 109–10. See also Child, Lydia Maria; Jacobs, Harriet
Indian Queen Hotel, 135, 198nn1–2
Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, The, 191n19
Jacobs, Harriet, 19, 109–12, 124–31, 140, 142, 198n23; on imaginative sympathy, 112; taste in, 125. See also Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Jameson, Frederic, 24
Jaros, Peter, 191n19
Jefferson, George, 145
Jefferson, Thomas, 1–2, 13–14, 17; and agricultural cultivation, 33–34, 35–37, 182n20; agricultural experiments of, 179n4; on the arts, 35–36; and discourse of taste, 87, 153; and eating, 21–22, 180n5; copying press of, 135–36, 137, 158; correspondence with Evans, 135–36, 138–40, 141, 143, 144–46, 159; on education, 36–37, 182n23; Farm-book of, 154–55, 156, 169; Franklin, admiration of, 196n8; graphical displays of, 19, 151; James Hemings, emancipation of, 25–27, 27; personal archive of, 136–38, 158, 199n4; and racial difference, 28–29, 157; and republican taste, 22, 107, 109, 116, 142; and slavery, 22, 24–30, 33, 140, 149, 181n14; on taste, 23–25, 27–33, 123–24, 182n18; on Wheatley, 78
Jennings, Paul, 17, 38–40, 167, 183n26; A Colored Man’s Reminiscences of James Madison, 24, 38, 44; emancipation of, 41–42, 47; portrait of, 43; and republican taste, 82
Johnson, Jessica Marie, 155
Judith: A Chronicle of Old Virginia (Harland), 105, 193n40
Kant, Immanuel, 38, 178nn23–24
Karcher, Carolyn L., 113, 118, 196n11
Kazanjian, David, 28, 82, 190n5; on speculative theory, 87
Keimer, Samuel, 54–55, 57, 61, 185n15; appetite of, 55–56, 59, 75
Korsmeyer, Carolyn, 12, 96–97, 176n5, 178n23, 182n16
Langone, Jan, 85
Larkin, Edward, 83
Law, Thomas, 32
Leclerc, Georges-Louis, Comte de Buffon, 152
Lewis, George, 5
liberty: dialectic of, 23; and farming, 34; and taste, 5, 11, 31–32, 40, 46–47
Locke, John, 151, 178n26; on slavery, 29–30
Looby, Christopher, 24, 153, 181n9
Louverture, Toussaint, 45–47, 184n34
Madison, Dolley, 180n6, 183n26; and slavery, 41–42
Madison, James, 13–14, 17; and agricultural cultivation, 33–35, 36–38, 102, 182n20, 182n22; Albemarle address, 35; and black citizenship, 39–44; and discourse of taste, 87, 109; and eating, 180n5; on education, 182n23; expatriation, support for, 39; and republican taste, 116; and slavery, 24–25, 33–38, 40–44, 140, 183n29; on taste, 23–25, 123–24; and temperance, 44; temperance of, 38–39; on Virginia House-Wife, 101
Mandeville, Bernard, 56–57, 185n8, 186n18
Marshall, Kerry James, 170–73, 171; portrait of Moorhead, 20, 170–73, 171, 202n8; portrait of Wheatley, 171–72
Mather, Cotton, 181n15
McKenzie, Henry, 58
McPherson, Christopher, 40–41
McWilliams, James, 180n6
Mecom, Jane, 58–59
media studies, 200n14
Merry, Anthony, 180n5
Miller, John Chester, 181n14
Mintz, Sidney, 176n11
Monroe, James, 105
Moorhead, Scipio, 20, 170–73, 202n8
moral sense philosophy, 14, 27–28, 33, 36, 39; and public service, 59, 117; on refinement, 74
Morton, Timothy, 74
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, 165–67
named entity recognition (NER), 147, 149, 200n19
National Anti-Slavery Standard, 118
neo-slave narratives, 111, 133; The Underground Railroad, 130–32, 170
Neuhaus, Jessamyn, 95
Nolan, J. Bennett, 58
Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson), 27–30, 35, 40–41, 78; racial taxonomies in, 157; visual display in, 152–57, 154. See also Jefferson, Thomas
Olney, James, 197n21
O’Neill, Molly, 191n12
Onuf, Peter, 29
orphanhood: in America Cookery, 92–95, 98; and Russell, 98
Papers of Thomas Jefferson Digital Edition, 138–41, 139, 147, 150–51, 159, 200n19
Parama, Roy, 185n10
Parrish, Susan Scott, 8, 177n13
Pasanek, Brad, 71
Patterson, Orlando, 179n33
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 12, 83, 190n9
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, 184n1
Petite, Adrien, 25
Pichon, Louis-André, 184n34
plain living, 4
Playfair, William, 152; and data visualization, 153
pleasure, 83; and the body, 64–66, 72, 79, 187n31; and civility, 62; and Grimod, 65–66, 72, 79
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (Wheatley), 70, 72–73; frontispiece for, 20, 75–76, 77, 170; marketing of, 76. See also Wheatley, Phillis
Pollan, Michael, 54
Post, Amy, 124
postcolonial studies: archive of, 200n12
Proust, Marcel, 10
race: and citizenship, 98; and cookbooks, 102; and cultivation of taste, 72–73; and eating, 7; and imagination, 128–29, 131; and Jefferson, 28–29, 157; and national identity, 24–25; and republican ideology, 28–29; in Simmons, 95; and storytelling, 197n19; and taste, 29–30, 39–42, 157; and tasteful subject, 53; as technology, 157, 201n25; and the visible, 157; in Wheatley, 70, 72–73
racism: and national belonging, 93; scientific racism, 152, 157
Ramsay, Stephen, 147
Randolph, David Meade, 105, 192n30, 193n37, 194n40
Randolph, Mary, 84, 98–105, 169, 192n30, 193n37; enslaved staff of, 100; and Gabriel’s Rebellion, 106–7, 193n40; on management and control, 99–100, 102–4, 106–7; methodical approach of, 99–100; recipes of, 99, 102–3. See also Virginia House-Wife, The
realism, speculative, 190
reason, 184n6; and animality, 56; and appetite, 50, 52, 57, 66–67, 72, 186n19, 187n21; Aristotle on, 50; and discourse of taste, 50–51; and epistemology, 155; limits of, 54; Plato on, 50
receipt books, 1. See also cookbooks
recipes: generic conventions of, 95, 97; and improvisation, 95–97, 104, 192n26; of James Hemings, 160–61, 162–63; of Randolph, 99, 102–3; of Russell, 97–98, 99; as scriptive texts, 95–96, 100; of Simmons, 96–97, 99, 192n27
republicanism, 17; and citizenship, 24; and eating, 21–22, 180n5; ideology of, 4, 175n3; and motherhood, 192n25; and race, 28–29; repertoire of, 48
republican taste, 4–5, 17, 115; and aesthetic theory, 84; and appetite, 47; archive of, 44; and citizenship, 25; and the civic good, 91; cultivation of, 141; development of, 82; and James Hemings, 82, 142; and Jefferson, 22, 107, 109, 116, 142; limits of, 18–19; and Madison, 116;and satisfaction, 89; and slavery, 26, 75; and temperance, 30–31; and virtue, 116; and Wheatley, 72, 82. See also taste; taste, discourse of
Richardson, Richard, 145
Ridley, Glynis, 93
Risjord, Norman, 179n1
Roberts, Robert, 81, 88–89, 191n15
Rowlandson, Mary, 115
Russell, Malinda, 18, 20, 81–82, 85–91, 140, 191n12; aesthetic theory of, 89, 93–94; attempted migration to Liberia, 81, 82, 85, 89, 190n6; entrepreneurialism of, 91, 125, 191n19; method of, 104; orphanhood of, 98; and politics, 191n20; recipes of, 97–98, 99; on satisfaction, 84, 85, 87, 90–91, 97–98, 107–8; sources for, 98–99, 101, 104. See also Domestic Cookbook, A
Sancho, Ignatius, 29
satisfaction: as alternative to taste, 88–89; and capitalism, 91; of debts, 90–91; and republican taste, 89; revolutionary potential of, 106; and Russell, 84, 85, 87, 90–91, 97–98, 107–8
Say, Francis, 145
Schiff, Stacy, 50
Schiller, Friedrich, 178n24
Scipio Moorhead, Portrait of Himself, 1776 (Marshall painting), 20, 170–73, 171, 202n8
search technology, 20, 138–40. See also data visualization
sensibility: discourse of, 178n28
sentimentalism: and slavery, 195n4; and sympathy, 129–30
sexism: and national belonging, 93
Shaftesbury, Third Earl of (Anthony Ashley Cooper), 12, 23, 185n8, 186n1, 190n8; on refinement, 74
Sharpe, Christina, 108
Shaw, Francis, 118
Sheppard, Mosby, 105
Shi, David, 181n15
Shields, David S., 24, 98, 177n16, 181n10, 192n28
Simek, Nicole, 190n5
Simmons, Amelia, 18, 84, 92–95, 97; and aesthetics, 95; and discourse of taste, 95; and race, 95; recipes of, 96–97, 99; and republican motherhood, 192n25; and whiteness, 92–93. See also American Cookery
slave narratives, 91, 195n5; on ideology of taste, 110–11; and imagination, 128; neo-slave narratives, 111, 113, 130–32, 170; politics of, 112; violence in, 109–10, 197n21
slavery, 7; and aesthetics, 107–8; and archival silence, 142–43, 147, 169–70; archive of, 15–16, 111, 141–42, 145–46, 150, 200n12; and capitalism, 150; and cooking, 102–4, 169, 193n31; in France, 68; Franklin on, 140, 187n23, 188n36; and the ghost, 142; and Jefferson, 22, 24–30, 33, 140, 149, 181n14; Locke on, 29–30; and republican taste, 26, 75; and republican virtue, 181n14; and sentimentalism, 195n4; Somerset Case, 58; as state of war, 29; and storytelling, 197n19; and sugar, 58, 74–75; and violence, 155; and Washington, 5, 6, 7, 8, 140, 176n8
Small, William, 151–52
Smith, Adam, 23
Smith, Eliza, 92
Smith, John, 115
social network analysis, 19, 170
soul food, 194n42
Spectator, The (journal), 13, 71, 188n41
speculation, 18, 82, 169, 190n5; and aesthetic theory, 83–84, 190n4, 190n10; and eating, 82–83; speculative realism, 190
Spillers, Hortense, 188n40
Stagg, J. C. A., 180n5
Stanard, Mary Newton, 105–6, 194n40
Stanton, Lucia, 142
Steele, Richard, 13
Stein, Jordan Alexander, 7
Steward, Fannie, 84, 98, 101, 104, 169
Stewart, Dugald, 182n18
Stoller, Laura Ann, 179n33
Stuart, Gilbert, 165, 166–67, 168
subjectivity: and animality, 54–55; and cookbooks, 98–99; and discourse of taste, 191n13; and the Enlightenment, 51
sugar: in Franklin, 58, 74; and slavery, 58, 74–75; in Wheatley, 74–75
surface reading, 142
Sweet, Timothy, 157
sympathy: and eating, 132; and food, 132; and sentimentalism, 129–30; sympathetic imagination, 112, 123, 129; sympathetic taste, 130
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles-Maurice de (Lord Talleyrand), 184n34
taste: and aesthetic judgment, 11–13; and aesthetics, 7, 17–18, 23–26, 83, 178nn22–24; and agency, 7; and agricultural cultivation, 35–36; and appetite, 50–51, 62, 186n21; archival absence of, 147; and the body, 39; in Child, 114–17, 119, 122–23, 125; and citizenship, 14, 17, 25, 32, 38, 47, 73, 93–94, 110, 113, 119; and civic virtue, 89, 98, 110, 117; cultivation of, 24, 35–36, 52, 63–64, 72–75, 88, 97, 98, 107, 109–10, 119; and Domestic Cookbook, 84; and the Enlightenment, 2; and excess, 50; in Franklin, 196n8; and humanity, 110; and imagination, 111, 112, 129; Jefferson on, 23–25, 27–33, 123–24, 182n18; and judgment, 13–14, 22, 113, 167, 178n26; and liberty, 5, 11, 31–32, 46–47; limits of, 50, 52, 129; Madison on, 23–25, 123–24; and morality, 58; and national identity, 29, 31–32, 115, 117, 119; philosophy of, 151; and pleasure, 32–33; and politics, 7, 17–18; and race, 29–30, 39–42, 157; satisfaction as alternative to, 88–89; and temperance, 30–31; transmission of, 88; and whiteness, 129. See also republican taste; taste, discourse of
taste, discourse of, 4, 12–20, 23, 167, 176n5, 183n27; and abolitionist fiction, 110–11; and agricultural cultivation, 35; alternatives to, 52; and appetite, 51, 54, 63–64; critiques of, 53, 66–67, 70, 72, 75, 78–79, 109, 167; cultivation in, 72; and Franklin, 52–53, 72, 75, 78–79, 82, 87, 109, 167; and Grimod, 52–53, 72, 75, 78–79, 82, 109, 167; and Madison, 87, 109; origins of, 49, 51; and reason, 50–51; and subjectivity, 191n13; and Washington, 87; Wheatley on, 52, 70, 72, 75, 78, 109, 167. See also republican taste; taste
tasteful subject, 18; and citizenship, 53; defined, 51–52; exclusivity of, 53, 84; Grimod on, 53, 61, 63; limits of, 70; and race, 53; Wheatley on, 53
Taylor, Diana, 48
Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling, 40–41, 42, 44, 183n26
temperance, 181n15; and abolition, 30–31; and agriculture, 44; and Madison, 38–39, 44; and pleasure, 31; and republican taste, 30–31
Thompson, Mary V., 176n8
Tillet, Salamishah, 131–32
Tompkins, Kyla Wazana, 51, 62, 185n10, 188n40, 191n17; on critical eating studies, 177n20; on eating, 7
Trist, Jefferson Randolph, 162–63
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph, 137
Tryon, Thomas, 185n16
Underground Railroad, The (Whitehead), 130–32, 170; food in, 131
University of Virginia, 35–36
Virginia House-Wife, The (Randolph), 98–104, 140; aesthetic considerations in, 103–4; on management and control, 99–100, 102–4, 193n32; recipes in, 99, 102–3; title page, 101. See also Randolph, Mary
visual display, 151; in Notes on the State of Virginia, 152–57, 154; and violence, 155
Vizenor, George, 197n22
Waldstreicher, David, 185n16
Walker, David, 183n30
Warner, Michael, 79
Warnes, Andrew, 194n41
Washington, George, 3–7, 14; archival presence of, 15; and discourse of taste, 87; and slavery, 5, 6, 7, 8, 140, 176n8
Washington, Martha, 9
Webster, Daniel, 42, 44, 180n6
Weheliye, Alexander, 51–52, 188n40
Wheatley, Phillis, 18, 20, 88, 172–73, 198n25; aesthetic theory of, 70–71; on appetite, 59; cultivation in, 73; on discourse of taste, 52, 70, 72, 75, 78, 109, 167; gender in, 72; meeting with Franklin, 68, 69, 70, 188n38; “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” 73–75; “On Imagination,” 70–72; portraits of, 75–76, 171–72, 202n9; race in, 70, 72–73; and republican taste, 72, 82; on tasteful subject, 53
Wheatley, Susanna, 189n46
Whitehead, Colson, 130–31, 144, 170
whiteness: and domesticity, 122; and imagination, 198n24; and Simmons, 92–93; and taste, 129
Williams-Forson, Psyche, 102, 193n31
“Willie Wharton” (Child), 112; cultivation of taste in, 120–23; eating in, 120; self-regulation in, 123–24; sympathetic imagination in, 123; on taste, 122–23; Thanksgiving scene in, 120, 197n13. See also Child, Lydia Maria
Wilson, Harriet, 197n13
Wolfe, Cary, 78
Woodard, Vincent, 188n40
Woolfolk, Ben, 105
Worcester, David, 188n38