Table of Contents

Introduction: Modernism and Gastronomy (Derek Gladwin)

Part 1: Culture and Consumption

1.        Sweet Bean Jam and Excrement: Food, Humor, and Gender in Osaki Midori’s Writings (Tomoko Aoyama)

2.        What Is Eating For?: Food and Function in James Joyce’s Fiction (Gregory Castle)

3.        A Woolf at the Table: Virginia Woolf and the Domestic Dinner Party (Lauren Rich)

4.        Consuming the Modernist Cookbook: Food Literacy and Culture with Toklas, Dalí, and Marinetti (Derek Gladwin)

Part 2: Taste and Disgust

5.         Objects of Disgust: A Moveable Feast and the Modernist Anti-Vomitive (Michel Delville and Andrew Norris)

6.        “We were very lonely without those berries”: Gastronomic Colonialism in Canada’s Indian Residential Schools (Clint Burnham)

7.        From “Squalid Food” to “Proper Cuisine”: Food and Fare in Eliot’s Work (Jeremy Diaper)

Part 3: Decadence and Absence

8.        The Social and Cultural Uses of Food Separation (Peter Childs)

9.        Against Culinary Art: Mina Loy and the Modernist Starving Artist (Alys Moody)

10.      Cocktails with Noël Coward (Gregory Mackie)

11.      Late Modernist Rationing: War, Power, Class (Kelly Sullivan)

Part 4: Appetites and Diets

12.      “The Raw and the Cooked”: Food and Modernist Poetry (Lee Jenkins)

13.      Weight-Loss Regimes as Improvisation in Louis Armstrong’s and Duke Ellington’s Life Writing (Halloran)

14.      Kitchen Talk: Marguerite Duras’ Experiments with Culinary Matter (Edwige Crucifix)

About the Author

Derek Gladwin is Assistant Professor in Language and Literacy Education at University of British Columbia. His authored or co-edited books include Eco-Joyce (co-ed, 2014), Unfolding Irish Landscapes (co-ed, 2016), Contentious Terrains (2016), and Ecological Exile (2018). Please visit www.derekgladwin.com.

Reviews

Reviews ‘Contributing to an increasingly expanding field, the essays collected in Gastro-modernism explore the personal, collective, political, historical, and aesthetic role of food in a range of modernist works. Gladwin’s collection constitutes a highly useful and readable resource for students and scholars interested in the insightful, sometimes latent, sometimes overt, but always fascinating intersections and connection between food studies and literary modernist studies.’
Maria Christou, University of Manchester, author of Eating Otherwise: The Philosophy of Food in Twentieth Century Literature

‘In Gastro-modernism¸ the landscapes of literary modernism become fascinating foodscapes, compelling us to examine its literary, artistic, and epistemic forms anew. There is a lot on the menu here. The domestic dinner party in Woolf’s writing, the synesthetic pleasures of Joyce’s prose, the starving artist of Mina Loy’s work, and the food memoirs of MFK Fisher are only a few of the many offerings. Importantly for students and scholards of the period, this collection is cognizant of significant developments in food studies relating to eco-modernism, modernist gender studies, and postcolonial-modernism, which inform its wide range of essays. Indeed, Gastro-modernism, itself an important key term that frames the essays, is sure to change the way we approach the field at large.’
Gitanjali Shahani, San Francisco State University, author of Tasting Difference and editor of Food and Literature

The emergent modernist food studies which [Gastro-Modernism] represent[s] then is very much of its moment and is a logical next step in our continued critical exploration of the legacy of new modernist studies and its political, cross-cultural, and material turn.
Rebecca Bowler, Modernism/modernity

‘Collections like Gastro-Modernism and others in the latest boom demonstrate the potential for modernist food studies as they sow generative connections and enrich subfields far more effectively than keeping the same canonical texts and authors in their separate silos.’
Jessica Martell, James Joyce Quarterly

‘Jenkins’s and Diaper’s contributions to Gladwin’s collection reveal another aspect of Eliot’s ecological commentary—within the avenue of food studies and gastrocriticism—even as Gladwin’s collection contributes to a rapidly expanding avenue within modernist studies at large.’
Christina J. Lambert, The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual