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 Noël 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:
"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.
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