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An Archive of Taste: Index

An Archive of Taste

Index

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

Akenside, Mark, 71, 72

Allewaert, Monique, 45, 52

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

archive fever, 136, 199n5

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

barbecues, 106, 194n41

Barthes, Roland, 8, 10–11

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

Calef, Robert, 76, 189n46

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

Conkling, Margaret, 9, 177n13

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

Derrida, Jacques, 136, 199n5

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

Drucker, Johanna, 155, 157

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

Eden, Trudy, 115, 196n10

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

fancy, 71, 83

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

Fielder, Brigitte, 120, 122

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

Foucault, Michel, 142, 157

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

Fraunces, Samuel, 3–4, 175n2

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

Gardner, William, 40, 183n29

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

Gikandi, Simon, 23, 176n9

Gilroy, Paul, 150

Glasse, Hannah, 92

Gonzalez, Jennifer, 201n25

Gordon, Avery, 141, 179n33

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

Harland, Marion, 105, 193n40

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, Peter, 45, 183n32

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

Hess, Karen, 100, 192n22

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 113, 125

Hobbes, Thomas, 57, 185n8

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

Hutcheson, Francis, 13, 47

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

Kaplan, Amy, 122, 197n16

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

LaBan, Craig, 167, 202n2

Langone, Jan, 85

Larkin, Edward, 83

Law, Thomas, 32

Leclerc, Georges-Louis, Comte de Buffon, 152

Leviathan (Hobbes), 57, 185n8

Lewis, George, 5

Lewis, Nicholas, 145, 179n4

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

Marcus, Sharon, 142, 179n33

Marshall, Kerry James, 170–73, 171; portrait of Moorhead, 20, 170–73, 171, 202n8; portrait of Wheatley, 171–72

Mason, Julian, 72, 188n42

Mather, Cotton, 181n15

McCarty, Monica, 42, 180n6

McCoy, Drew, 34, 182n24

McKenzie, Henry, 58

McPherson, Christopher, 40–41

McWilliams, James, 180n6

McWilliams, Mark, 92, 116

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

Morrison, Toni, 124–25, 195n5

Morton, Timothy, 74

Moten, Fred, 82, 190n5

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

Nudelman, Franny, 129, 197n21

Ochoa, Marcia, 51, 62, 185n10

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

Plato, 184n6; on reason, 50

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

scientific racism, 152, 157

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 death, 142, 157

social network analysis, 19, 170

soul food, 194n42

Spang, Rebecca L., 60, 66–67

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

Sundquist, Eric, 28, 38

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

Weinstein, Cindy, 24, 181n9

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

Wilson, Ivy, 82, 150, 190n5

Wolfe, Cary, 78

Woodard, Vincent, 188n40

Woolfolk, Ben, 105

Worcester, David, 188n38

XML, 147, 159, 200n19

Zafar, Rafia, 73, 104, 192n20

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A different version of chapter 1 was published as "Dinner-Table Bargains: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Senses of Taste," Early American Literature 49, no. 2 (Spring 2014): 403–33; copyright 2014 by the University of North Carolina Press, reprinted by permission of the publisher, www.uncpress.org. Different versions of portions of chapter 3 were published in "Speculative Aesthetics," Early American Literature 51, no. 2 (Spring 2016): 437–45; copyright 2016 University of North Carolina Press, reprinted by permission of the publisher, www.uncpress.org. A different version of a portion of chapter 4 was published in "The Matter of Early American Taste," in The Cambridge Companion to Food and Literature, ed. J. Michelle Coughlan (Cambridge University Press, 2020); copyright 2020, Cambridge University Press, reprinted with permission. A different version of chapter 5 was published as "The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings," American Literature 85, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 661–88; copyright 2013, Duke University Press, reprinted by permission, www.dukeupress.edu.

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