id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 9p29086344p Lauren Grace Rich Food for Thought: Eating, Reading, and Being Modern in British and Irish Literature, 1900s–1950s 2012 .txt text/plain 338 12 37 My work intersects with several vibrant strands of scholarly research, including food studies, women's studies, postcolonial studies, and the 'materialist turn' in modernist studies. My dissertation also explores several 'feminine middlebrow' writers including E.M. Delafield, Stella Gibbons, and Barbara Pym, whose work, I argue, envisions a more optimistic response to modernity's erosion of food-based ritual by creating consumption communities founded on shared tastes' both literary and gustatory. cache/9p29086344p.txt txt/9p29086344p.txt