Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature From the Ancients to the - Twenty First Centur

"This book traces the development of vegetarianism through literature. Its historical span ranges from ancient thinkers, such as Pythagoras and Ovid, to contemporary writers, including Ruth L. Ozeki and Jonathan Franzen. Its broad historical range is complemented by a cross-cultural focus which emphasises the connections between east and west"--

List of contents

1. 'Everybody eating everyone else'; 2. Pythagoreans; or, Vegetarians before 'Vegetarianism'; 3. Vegetarianism and the Utopian Novel; 4. Vegetarianism as Religion; 5. Vegetarianism in the Fiction of Women's Liberation; 6. Animal Abstinence in the Anthropocene; 7. 'Pity the meat!': Ideology, Metaphor, Violence; Bibliography.

About the author

Theophilus Savvas is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. He is the author of American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past (2011) and co-editor of After Postmodernism: The New American Fiction (2021).

Summary

This book traces the development of vegetarianism through literature. Its historical span ranges from ancient thinkers, such as Pythagoras and Ovid, to contemporary writers, including Ruth L. Ozeki and Jonathan Franzen. Its broad historical range is complemented by a cross-cultural focus which emphasises the connections between east and west.

Foreword

This book provides a historical overview of literary vegetarianism and veganism in a cross-cultural context.

Product details

• Authors: Theophilus Savvas, Theophilus (University of Bristol) Savvas, Savvas Theophilus
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2024
• EAN: 9781009287258
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0928725-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Food & society, Animals & society, Literary theory, Animals and society, Cultural studies: food and society