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Strode Guest Lecture: Dr. Kristina Bross: The 'Vertues of Chocolate'; or, A Transatlantic Tale of Gender, Commodities, and Cosmopolitanism”

November 14, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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The Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies 

presents

 “The ‘Vertues of Chocolate’; or, A Transatlantic Tale of Gender, Commodities, & Cosmopolitanism” 

 A Lecture by 

Dr. Kristina Bross

Purdue University

 

Wednesday, Nov. 14

5 p.m. Morgan Hall, Room 301

Free and Open to the Public

 

 

 

In the seventeenth-century, English promoters of chocolate described it as a product of global trade generally. Chocolate was included as part of a new class of luxury and medicinal products, such as coffee, tea, tobacco and sassafras, which were imported to England from the Indies (both East and West) and consumed by elites and middling sorts alike. This talk closely reads ephemera (a broadside, travel narratives, bawdy verses) that describe chocolate to its new English consumers. Taken together, these works suggest how chocolate as a global commodity was translated into particularly English—and gendered—modes of consumption. 

 

Cost

Free

Details

Date:
November 14, 2018
Time:
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Cost:
Free

Venue

Morgan Hall 301
Morgan Hall
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 United States

Organizer

Michelle Dowd