| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 273 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Liverpool scholarship online
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| Summary |
"Gastro-Modernism shows how global literary modernisms engage with the food culture known as gastronomy to express anxieties about modernity as much as to celebrate the excesses modern lifestyles produce"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introducing le menu : consuming modernist food studies / Derek Gladwin -- Sweet bean paste and excrement : food, humor, and gender in Osaki Midori's writings / Tomoko Aoyama -- What is eating for? : food and function in James Joyce's fiction / Gregory Castle -- A Woolf at the table : Virginia Woolf and the domestic dinner party / Lauren Rich -- The social and cultural uses of food separation / Peter Childs -- Against culinary art : Mina Loy and the modernist starving artist / Alys Moody -- Cocktails with Noel Coward / Gregory Mackie -- Late modernist rationing : war, class, power / Kelly Sullivan -- Objects of disgust : a Moveable feast and the modernist anti-vomitive / Michel Delville and Andrew Norris -- "We were very lonely without those berries" : gastronomic colonialism in Canada's Indian residential schools / Clint Burnham -- From "squalid food" to "proper cuisine" : food and fare in the work of T.S. Eliot / Jeremy Diaper -- "The raw and the cooked" : food and modernist poetry / Lee M. Jenkins -- Weight-loss regimes as improvisation in Louis Armstrong's and Duke Ellington's life writing / Vivian Halloran -- Kitchen talk : Marguerite Duras' experiments with culinary matter / Edwige Crucifix. |
| Summary |
This volume of essays surveys gastronomy across global literary modernisms. Modernists explore public and domestic spaces where food and drink are prepared and served, as much as they create them in the modernist imagination through narrative, language, verse, and style. Modernism as a cultural and artistic movement also highlights the historical politics of food and eating. As the chapters in Gastro-Modernism reveal, critical trends in food studies alert us to many social concerns that emerge in the modernist period because of expanding food literacy and culture. The result is that food production, consumption, and scarcity are abiding themes in modernist literature and culture, reflecting tensions amidst colonial, agricultural, and industrial settings. This timely volume ultimately shows how global literary modernisms engage with food culture known as gastronomy to express anxieties about modernity as much as to celebrate the excesses modern lifestyles produce. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gastronomy in literature.
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Food habits in literature.
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Food in literature.
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Modernism (Literature) -- History and criticism.
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Literary essays. |
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Food & society. |
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Food security & supply. |
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Sustainability. |
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Literary studies: from c 1900. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. |
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Food habits in literature. |
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Food in literature. |
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Gastronomy in literature. |
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Modernism (Literature) |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Gladwin, Derek, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gastro-modernism. First edition. [Clemson, South Carolina] : Clemson University Press in association with Liverpool University Press, 2019 9781942954682 (DLC) 2019010738 |
| ISBN |
1942954697 (electronic book) |
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9781942954699 (electronic bk.) |
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9781942954682 |
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1789623634 |
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9781789623635 |
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