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  • Introduction

  • Edited by Susanne Schmid, Dortmund University, Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, Bonn University
  • Book:
    Drink in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
    Published by:
    Pickering & Chatto
    Published online:
    05 December 2014, pp 1-10

  • Summary

    His [the farmer's] honest Friends, at thirsty hour of Dusk,

    Come uninvited; he with bounteous Hand

    Imparts his smoaking Vintage, sweet Reward

    Of his own Industry; the well fraught Bowl

    Circles incessant.

    John Philips, Cyder (1708)

    John Philips's Cyder: A Poem in Two Books (1708) teaches the reader in great detail not only how to produce superior cider but also how to enjoy this ‘home-brew’ in an atmosphere of rural conviviality. His two-part georgic, 1,465 lines long, ranges from a description of the rural year's cycle to digressions about British history. Cyder, published one year after the Act of Union (1707), is more than a recipe in rhyme about a fermented drink made from apples: it constitutes a symbolic celebration of a united England and Scotland – thus drinking cider, and writing about it, become national statements.

    Cider, rum, wine, beer, coffee, tea, cocoa, even water, are all forms of liquid refreshment and nourishment, and their consumption signals individual preferences; yet they are also emblems of lifestyles, of political affiliations, even of religious creeds. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century drink was coded in terms of nationality, class and gender. If, in the early eighteenth century, cider came to be seen as English, rural and masculine, chocolate, on the other hand, occasionally mentioned in contemporary debates around luxury, was regarded as an aphrodisiac, as urban and later as a comforting drink particularly suited to female needs.

Drink in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  • Edited by Susanne Schmid, Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp
  • Published by:
    Pickering & Chatto
    Published online:
    05 December 2014
  • These essays cover the representation and practice of drinking a variety of beverages across eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and North America. A crucial period for the development of modern drinking culture, this period saw the emergence of urban public places connecting drinking and sociability. Divisions across class were particularly stark, with the London coffeehouse at one end and the low tavern or inn at the other. Similarly, certain drinks – chocolate and tea, for instance – had strong gender connotations, which became fixed over time. The case studies in this volume cover drinking culture from a variety of perspectives, including literature, history, anthropology and the history of medicine.