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.

• Introduction: Modernist Ecologies and the Food Politics of EmpirePart I1. Industrial Dairying, the Pastoral, and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles2. Food Chains and Refrigerated Time in E.M. Forster's Howards End3. Wartime Rationing and Virginia Woolf's Aesthetic EcologiesPart II4. Joseph Conrad and the Metabolism of Empire5. Famine, Food Sovereignty, and the Irish Literary RevivalCoda"From a Morning World"Acknowledgments

Farm to Form is a well-written, solid piece of scholarship. The selection of writers and texts alone will make this book a must-read, and no one, to my knowledge, has explored to this extent how the rapid transformation of food production, distribution, and marketing touched the choices that writers made in shaping their work." — Bill Conlogue, professor of English, Marywood University and author of Working the Garden

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.

• Introduction: Modernist Ecologies and the Food Politics of EmpirePart I1. Industrial Dairying, the Pastoral, and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles2. Food Chains and Refrigerated Time in E.M. Forster's Howards End3. Wartime Rationing and Virginia Woolf's Aesthetic EcologiesPart II4. Joseph Conrad and the Metabolism of Empire5. Famine, Food Sovereignty, and the Irish Literary RevivalCoda"From a Morning World"Acknowledgments

Farm to Form is a well-written, solid piece of scholarship. The selection of writers and texts alone will make this book a must-read, and no one, to my knowledge, has explored to this extent how the rapid transformation of food production, distribution, and marketing touched the choices that writers made in shaping their work." — Bill Conlogue, professor of English, Marywood University and author of Working the Garden

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.

• Introduction: Modernist Ecologies and the Food Politics of EmpirePart I1. Industrial Dairying, the Pastoral, and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles2. Food Chains and Refrigerated Time in E.M. Forster's Howards End3. Wartime Rationing and Virginia Woolf's Aesthetic EcologiesPart II4. Joseph Conrad and the Metabolism of Empire5. Famine, Food Sovereignty, and the Irish Literary RevivalCoda"From a Morning World"Acknowledgments

Farm to Form is a well-written, solid piece of scholarship. The selection of writers and texts alone will make this book a must-read, and no one, to my knowledge, has explored to this extent how the rapid transformation of food production, distribution, and marketing touched the choices that writers made in shaping their work." — Bill Conlogue, professor of English, Marywood University and author of Working the Garden