The Road to Wellville (Identities and Issues in Literature)

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The Road to Wellville satirizes the American obsession with health and fitness through a lampoon of the physical culture movement at the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1907, John Harvey Kellogg, “inventor of the corn flake and peanut butter, not to mention caramel-coffee, Bromose, Nuttolene, and some seventy-five other gastrically-correct foods,” plays health guru to an international clientele affluent enough to lodge at his sanatorium in Battle Creek, Michigan. While there, his patients forswear meat for vegetables and whole grains, submit...

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