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OverviewIn Edible Arrangements, Elizabeth Blake explores the way modernist writing about eating delves into larger questions about bodily and literary pleasure. Drawing on insights from the field of food studies, she makes dual interventions into queer theory and modernist studies: first, locating an embrace of queerness within modernist depictions of the pleasure of eating, and second, showing how this queer consumption shapes modernist notions of literary form, expanding and reshaping conventional genres. Drawing from a promiscuous archive that cuts across boundaries of geography and canonicity, Blake demonstrates how modernist authors draw on this consuming queerness to restructure a range of literary forms. Each chapter constellates a set of seemingly disparate writers working in related modes—such as the satirical writings of Richard Bruce Nugent, Virginia Woolf, and Katherine Mansfield—in order to demonstrate how writing about eating can both unsettle the norms of bodily pleasure and those of genre itself. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elizabeth Blake (Clark University)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Weight: 0.457kg ISBN: 9781009321228ISBN 10: 1009321226 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 31 August 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews'While Blake's book focuses on modernist literature, her analysis of how it depicts embodied relationships with and through food certainly applies to other forms of experimental queer art. This is the mark of a great academic text: when its ideas can illuminate new ways of understanding objects beyond its purview.' Lauren Herold, Autostraddle Author InformationElizabeth Blake is Assistant Professor of English at Clark University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |