Gastro-modernism: Food, Literature, Culture

This volume of essays surveys gastronomy across global literary modernisms. The phenomenon of food culture is iconically modern. 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, 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 stud...