Routledge Drink in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Perspectives in Economic and Social History)

Product Description This collection of essays covers the representation and practice of drinking a variety of beverages across eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and North America. The case studies in this volume cover drinking culture from a variety of perspectives, including literature, history, anthropology and the history of medicine. Review "This volume offers a welcome contribution to discussions of consumption, labour, and leisure. Its readers will discover much about different experiences of lubricated identities (established and emergent) and identity politics on both sides of the Atlantic between 1700 and 1900. (...) this volume satisfies the two chief requirements of any edited collection. It presents original research and it provokes ongoing debate. It is therefore to be convivially welcomed." - Conrad Brunstrom About the Author Susanne Schmid received her doctorate from the Free University, Berlin. She has also taught at the universities of Salford, Frankfurt, Princeton, Paderborn, Regensburg, Mainz, Erfurt, Bochum and Greifswald. She has written three books and co-edited two, among them Jungfrau und Monster (1996), Shelley's German Afterlives 1814 - 2000 (2007) and The Reception of P B Shelley in Europe (2008). Her research interests include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture. Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp is Professor of English at the University of Bonn. Her areas of specialization include eighteenth-century British literature and culture and postcolonial studies. She served on the board of the German Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and organized that Society's annual conference in 2008 on the topic of 'Europe and Turkey in the Eighteenth Century'. A selection of the conference papers was published with Bonn UP in 2011.