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• Eating Identities: Reading Food in Asian American Literature (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2008), by Wenying Xu (PDF with commentary at Hawaii)
• Stephen and Bloom at Life's Feast: Alimentary Symbolism and the Creative Process in James Joyce's "Ulysses" (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Lindsey Tucker (PDF at Ohio State)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Reimagining Marginalized Foods: Global Processes, Local Places (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c2012), ed. by Elizabeth Finnis (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)
• Foods of Association: Biocultural Perspectives on Foods and Beverages that Mediate Sociability (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c2009), by Nina L. Etkin (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)
• Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer (1982), by Assembly of Life Sciences (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Six Arguments for a Greener Diet: How a More Plant-Based Diet Could Save Your Health and the Environment (Washington, DC: Center for Science in the Public Interest, c2006), by Michael F. Jacobson (PDF files at cspinet.org)

• Haa Atxaayi Haa Kusteeyix Sitee; Our Food is Our Tlingit Way of Life: Excerpts of Oral Interviews (third edition; Juneau: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Alaska Region, 2006), by Richard G. Newton and Madonna Moss (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), ed. by Julian Agyeman and Sydney Giacalone (PDF files at MIT Press)

• Relationships Among the Brain, the Digestive System, and Eating Behavior: Workshop Summary (Washington: National Academies Press, 2015), by Leslie A. Pray, contrib. by Institute of Medicine Food Forum
  • HTML with commentary at NAP
  • HTML at NIH

• Relationships Among the Brain, the Digestive System, and Eating Behavior: Workshop Summary (Washington: National Academies Press, 2015), by Leslie A. Pray, contrib. by Institute of Medicine Food Forum
  • HTML with commentary at NAP
  • HTML at NIH

• Southern Foodways and Culture: Local Considerations and Beyond (selected papers from the 2007 annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society; Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2013), ed. by Lisa J. Lefler (PDF at Tennessee)

• The Great Eater of Kent: or, Part of the Admirable Teeth and Stomacks Exploits of Nicholas Wood, of Harrisom in the County of Kent; His Excessive Manner of Eating Without Manners, in Strange and True Manner Described (London: Printed by E. Allde for H. Gosson, 1630), by John Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet? (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2021), by Jessica Fanzo (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet? (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2021), by Jessica Fanzo (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Cornflake Crusade (New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Co., c1957), by Gerald Carson (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• Setting the Table for Julia Child: Gourmet Dining in America, 1934-1961 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011), by David Strauss (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Mother McGrew and Tommy Turkey, by Alice Crew Gall, illust. by Lee Wright Stanley (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• Digest: An Interdisciplinary Study of Food and Foodways (begun in 1977) (partial serial archives)

• Gravy (University, MS: Southern Foodways Alliance, 2000-) (partial serial archives)

• Hidden Hunger: Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c2013), by Aya Hirata Kimura (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press)

• Eating Identities: Reading Food in Asian American Literature (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2008), by Wenying Xu (PDF with commentary at Hawaii)

• Serving Up MyPlate: A Yummy Curriculum (3 teachers' guides; 2012), by United States Food and Nutrition Service (PDF files with commentary at usda.gov)
• Let's Eat for the Health of It (Washington: GPO, 2011), by United States Department of Agriculture and United States Department of Health and Human Services (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• The Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), ed. by Julian Agyeman and Sydney Giacalone (PDF files at MIT Press)

• Positive Deviance in Child Nutrition: With Emphasis on Psychosocial and Behavioural Aspects and Implications for Development (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, c1990), ed. by Marian F. Zeitlin, Hossein Ghassemi, and Mohamed Mansour (illustrated HTML at UNU)

• Reimagining Marginalized Foods: Global Processes, Local Places (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c2012), ed. by Elizabeth Finnis (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)
• Fat Detection: Taste, Texture, and Post Ingestive Effects (Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2010), ed. by Jean-Pierre Montmayeur and Johannes Le Coutre (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
• Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
• Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Leona Toker (PDF at Ohio State)

• Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• Curiosities of Literature (compilation of articles originally published in editions from 1798-1823), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Stuart Heath (HTML at spamula.net)

• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
  • Volume I (About - Austen): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Austin - Behn): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Bellamy - Bulwer-Lytton): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Bulwer-Lytton - Claretie): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Cobb - Cooper): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Coppée - Dickens): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Dickens - Dumas): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Dumas - Fothergill): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (Fouque - Hardy): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X (Hardy - Hugo): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI (Hugo - Lever): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII (Lewald - Mulbach): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIII (Mulock - Reade): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIV (Reid - Scott): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XV (Scott - Sterne): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVI (Stevenson - Tourgee): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XVII (Trollope - Zola): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVIII (Mythology and Folk-Lore): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIX (Dictionary of Biographies, revised 1927): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XX (Dictionary of Famous Names): multiple formats at Google
• The Bed-Book of Happiness (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), ed. by Harold Begbie (Gutenberg text)
• Half-Hours With the Best Authors, Including Biographical and Critical Notices (revised edition, 4 volumes; London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1866), ed. by Charles Knight, illust. by William Harvey
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Harvard Classics (50 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1909-1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • without volume 50 ("Editor's Introduction..."): HTML at Bartleby
• The Library of Romance: A Collection of Traditions, Poetical Legends, and Short Standard Tales and Romances, of All Nations (London: O. Hodgson, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Classics (18 volumes), ed. by Rossiter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Book for a Corner: or, Selections in Prose and Verse From Authors the Best Suited to That Mode of Enjoyment; With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1857), ed. by Leigh Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amy E. Earhart (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), ed. by Raymond George Siemens and Susan Schreibman (frame-dependent HTML at digitalhumanities.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.