Books

Food: a Utopian Studies Special Issue

By Etta Madden | September 29, 2016
Idealized food practices have changed, I explain in the introduction to a 2015 special issue (26.1) of the journal Utopian Studies. Since Eating in Eden: Food...

Eliza Leslie: Fun & Food

By Etta Madden | September 24, 2016
Selections from Eliza Leslie collects stories, recipes and other works by the nineteenth-century cookbook author and humor writer from Philadelphia. In addition to providing a biographical...

Eating in Eden: Food and American Utopias

By Etta Madden | September 23, 2016
Drawing from our interests in utopian communities and religious history, my co-editor Martha Finch and I highlight in Eating in Eden (U Nebraska 2006) American food...

Bodies of Life: Shaker Literature and Literacies

By Etta Madden | September 22, 2016
In Bodies of Life: Shaker Literature and Literacies, I examine the roles of reading and writing in the celibate, religious communities known popularly as Shaker villages....