Modernism and food studies : politics, aesthetics, and the avant-garde / edited by Jessica Martell, Adam Fajardo, and Philip Keel Geheber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martell, Jessica, editor.

Fajardo, Adam, editor.

Geheber, Philip Keel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food in literature.

Food habits in literature.

Modernism (Literature).

Food--Research.

Food.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2019.

Summary:

As the first book-length study to bring the fields of modernism and food studies together, Modernism and Food Studies anchors the burgeoning field of modernist food studies. This volume collects theoretically and methodologically diverse essays that investigate modernist representations of food, broadly treated in phases from production to distribution and consumption. By exploring the profound relationship between modernist aesthetics and the new food cultures of modernity, Modernism and Food Studies uncovers new links between seemingly disparate spaces, cultures, and artistic media in a globalizing world.

Contents:

Aesthetics and the body

A swine from Epicurus's herd: the culinary, aesthetic, and erotic in Wilde and Huysmans / Giles Whiteley

"[L]ike the conjuror produces the egg": Katherine Mansfield's feminist aesthetics / Aimee Gaston

Tasteful insights: food, desire and the visual in Hemingway's literary still lifes / Randall Wilhelm

Modernist taste: Ford Madox Ford, queer potatoes, and goodly apples / Bradford Taylor

Cookbooks

"Recipes for the kitchens of the future": The futurist art of feeding / Sean Mark

Assimilating the Avant-Garde: futurist cuisine in U.S. local newspapers, 1913-1933 / Céline Mansanti

Alimentary assurances: possessive attachment and edible aspirations in the Alice B. Toklas cook book / Shannon Finck

Globalization, nationalism, and the politics of provenance

Invalid port: the politics of consumption in James Joyce's Ulysses / Matthew Hayward

Modernism, primitivism, and food in James Agee's Cotton tenants / David Davis

The encyclopedic culinary nationalism of Marcel Rouff's The Passionate Epicure / Philip Keel Geheber

Joyce's Trade Wars: the politics of provenance in Finnegans Wake / Chrissie Van Mierlo

Rationing, resistance, and revolt

The raw and the rotten: food and revolt in early modernist film / Graig Uhlin

Food for thought and scientific food rationing: Viktor Shklovsky's Case Against Censorship / Asiya Bulatova

Potatoes and the political ecology of James Joyce's Dubliners / Jessica Martell

Paddy, mangoes, and molasses scum: food regimes and the modernist novel in the Tale of Hansuli Turn / Brooke Stanley

Imagination and exchange

"A new confederacy" : the economy of southern hospitality in William Faulkner's Sanctuary / Carrie Tippen

Here there will be no unhappiness: chocolate and Langston Hughes' Utopian Impulse / Adam Fajardo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-5249-1