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vh53ws87t22	Heidi Oberholtzer Lee	Appetite and Desire in Early American Travel Narratives	2006		.txt	text/plain	311	9	24	Early American travel writers record through a language of food and eating the physical transformations that they believe confirm their religious piety, their economic viability, their visions of themselves as citizens of a civilized nation, and the success of their nation's imperialist projects. In this dissertation, I take a comparativist American Studies approach to argue that travel writers from both North and South America, including the Caribbean, from the mid-seventeenth century through the mid-nineteenth century, read and write their environments through a hermeneutic of appetite.	cache/vh53ws87t22.txt	txt/vh53ws87t22.txt