Fifteen years ago, I took a course at Harvard Extension called "Jane Austen's World in History, Literature, and Film." One of the books we read was a social history monograph on a single decade in Austen's era. I remember it had a discussion of the song "The Roast Beef of Old England," and argued that the English love of plain, manly roast beef was actually a suppressed envy of French food with its great sophistication. I need that quote now, but I don't remember the name of the book! The title may have had a reference to homosociality in it. Can anyone help?