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Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America revolves around the 1840 presidential election when, according to campaign slogans, candidates were what they ate. Skillfully deploying the rhetoric of republican simplicity--the belief that plain dress, food, and manners were signs of virtue in the young republic--William Henry Harrison defeated Martin Van Buren by aligning the incumbent with the European luxuries of pate de foie gras and soupe a la reine while maintaining that he survived on "raw beef without salt." The effectiveness of such claims reflected not only the continuing appeal of...