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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.

Copyright 2020 by Lauren F. Klein

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