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The concept of the "harlequin" refers to the practice of reassembling dinner scraps cleared from the plates of the wealthy to sell, replated, to the poor in nineteenth-century Paris. In ''The Harlequin Eaters'', Janet Beizer investigates how the alimentary harlequin evolved in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from the earlier, similarly patchworked Commedia(...)
The harlequin eaters: From food scaps to modernism in Nineteenth-century France
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The concept of the "harlequin" refers to the practice of reassembling dinner scraps cleared from the plates of the wealthy to sell, replated, to the poor in nineteenth-century Paris. In ''The Harlequin Eaters'', Janet Beizer investigates how the alimentary harlequin evolved in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from the earlier, similarly patchworked Commedia dell’Arte Harlequin character and can be used to rethink the entangled place of class, race, and food in the longer history of modernism.
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