Reading veganism : the monstrous vegan, 1818 to present / Emelia Quinn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quinn, Emelia, 1992- author.

Series:

Oxford English monographs.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford English monographs

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Veganism--Social aspects.

Veganism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

'Reading Veganism' focuses on the iteration of the trope 'the monstrous vegan' across two hundred years of Anglophone literature. Through veganism's relation to utopian longing and challenge to the conceptual category of the 'human,' the book explores ways in which ethical identities can be written, represented, and transmitted.

Contents:

Cover

Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Illustration

Introduction: The Monstrous Vegan

Defining Veganism

Vegan Literature

Vegan Theory

Veganism and Queer Theory

Veganism and the Monstrous

Chapter Outline

Part I

1: Mary Shelley and the Conception of the Monstrous Vegan

Romantic Vegetarianism

Defining the Monstrous Vegan

'Acorns and Berries Afford Me Sufficient Nourishment'

'The Dissecting Room and the Slaughterhouse Furnished Many of My Materials'

'A New Species Would Bless Me As Its Creator and Source'

'I Bid My Hideous Progeny Go Forth and Prosper'

'Will You Laugh at the Enthusiasm I Express?'

2: H. G. Wells and Monstrous Vegan Desires

Late-Nineteenth Century Vegetarianism

Re-writing the Monstrous Vegan

3: Margaret Atwood and Monstrous Vegan Words

All Gods are Carnivorous

The MaddAddam Trilogy

The Crakers

The God's Gardeners

The Problem of Eating

Part II

4: J. M. Coetzee and Monstrous Vegan Performativity

Theorizing Attention

Elizabeth Costello as Monstrous Vegan

Confronting Knowledge

Performing Veganism

Distance and Detachment

5: Alan Hollinghurst and Monstrous Vegan Camp

Vegan Camp

Big Cocks and Old Tofu Burgers

The Intolerable Meaning of Meat

Camping Frankenstein

Conclusion

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-192607-8

0-19-265540-X

OCLC:

1264469041