Farm to Form - Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire

Informationen zum Autor Jessica Martell is an assistant professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Appalachian State University. Her work has appeared in Modernist Cultures, Journal of Modern Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies as well as six scholarly collections. As an executive board member of Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture, a woman-led non-profit, she co-organized Appalachian State University's 2017 High Country Food Summit and advises the High Country Food Hub. Martell is an executive board member of Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture, a woman-led non-profit helping to build an equitable and sustainable food system in North Carolina's High Country. Klappentext "From farm to form: modernism, ecology, and the food politics of empire investigates the relationship between the rise of industrial food and the emergence of literary modernisms in Britain and Ireland. By weaving insights from modernist studies, food studies, and ecocriticism together, Farm to form contends that industrial food production transformed the natural world into a "modernist" terrain that shaped new literary forms, positioning modernism as central to the study of narratives of resistance against social and environmental degradation"-- Zusammenfassung Investigates the relationship between industrial food and the emergence of literary modernisms in Britain and Ireland. Weaving insights from modernist studies, food studies, and ecocriticism, Farm to Form contends that industrial food made nature "modernist", a term used as literary scholars understand it.

Product details

• Authors: Jessica Martell
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781948908368
• ISBN: 978-1-948908-36-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cultural Ecologies of Food in; Cultural Ecologies of Food
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literature - Classics / Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century