‘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