Farm to Form
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20th century
20th century literature
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agrarian to industrial
agribusiness
agribusiness capitalism
agriculture
Author_Jessica Martell
British Empire
British fiction
British food production
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causes of climate change
climate change
climate change and agriculture
colonial farmland
E. M. Forster
ecocriticism
empire
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european history of agriculture
european history of industrialization
european literature
food culture
food empire
food history
food in literature
food politics
food production
food security
food studies
food trade
foodways
fossil fuels
George Russell
global agriculture
global distribution
global food distribution
global food trade
history of agriculture
imperialism
industrial capitalism
industrial food supremacy
industrialization
industrialization of food production
industrialized food
irish history of industrilization
irish literature
james joyce
Joseph Conrad
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literary analysis
literary criticism
literary history
literary modernism
literary studies
literature of empire
manufacturing
mechanized production
modernism
Modernist Ecologies
modernist studies
progressive era
rise of industrialized food
scale producers
study of 20th century literature
study of twentieth century literature
thomas hardy
twentieth centiry literature
twentieth century
Virginia Woolf
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- ISBN 9781948908368
- Weight: 483g
- Dimensions: 154 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 04 Mar 2020
- Publisher: University of Nevada Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this groundbreaking book, Jessica Martell investigates the relationship between industrial food and the emergence of literary modernisms in Britain and Ireland. By the early twentieth century, the industrialization of the British Empire's food system had rendered many traditional farming operations, and attendant agrarian ways of life, obsolete. 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 stylistically disorienting, unfamiliar, and artificial but also exhilarating, excessive, and above all, new. Martell draws in part upon archives in the United Kingdom but also presents imperial foodways as an extended rehearsal for the current era of industrial food supremacy. She analyzes how pastoral mode, anachronism, fragmentation, and polyvocal narration reflect the power of the literary arts to reckon with, and to resist, the new "modernist ecologies" of the twentieth century.
Deeply informed by Martell's extensive knowledge of modern British, Irish, American, and World Literatures, this progressive work positions modernism as central to the study of narratives of resistance against social and environmental degradation. Analyzed works include those of Thomas Hardy, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, George Russell, and James Joyce.
In light of climate change, fossil fuel supremacy, nutritional dearth, and other pressing food issues, modernist texts bring to life an era of crisis and anxiety similar to our own. In doing so, Martell summons the past as a way to employ the modernist term of "defamiliarizing" the present so that entrenched perceptions can be challenged. Our current food regime is both new and constantly evolving with the first industrial food trades. Studying earlier cultural responses to them invites us to return to persistent problems with new insights and renewed passion.
Deeply informed by Martell's extensive knowledge of modern British, Irish, American, and World Literatures, this progressive work positions modernism as central to the study of narratives of resistance against social and environmental degradation. Analyzed works include those of Thomas Hardy, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, George Russell, and James Joyce.
In light of climate change, fossil fuel supremacy, nutritional dearth, and other pressing food issues, modernist texts bring to life an era of crisis and anxiety similar to our own. In doing so, Martell summons the past as a way to employ the modernist term of "defamiliarizing" the present so that entrenched perceptions can be challenged. Our current food regime is both new and constantly evolving with the first industrial food trades. Studying earlier cultural responses to them invites us to return to persistent problems with new insights and renewed passion.
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.
