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Reading veganism : the monstrous vegan, 1818 to present /

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Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present focuses on the iteration of the trope 'the monstrous vegan' across two hundred years of Anglophone literature. Explicating, through such monsters, veganism's relation to utopian longing and challenge to the conceptual category of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Quinn, Emelia, 1992- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2021].
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford English monographs.
Subjects:
Veganism.
Food habits in literature.
Food habits > Moral and ethical aspects.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Ethics in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The monstrous vegan
  • Mary Shelley and the conception of the monstrous vegan
  • H.G. Wells and monstrous vegan desires
  • Margaret Atwood and monstrous vegan words
  • J.M. Coetzee and monstrous vegan performativity
  • Alan Hollinghurst and monstrous vegan camp.