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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      30 May 2024
      06 June 2024
      ISBN:
      9781009287265
      9781009287258
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009287265
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 264 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
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    Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century re-assesses both canonical and less well-known literary texts to illuminate how vegetarianism and veganism can be understood as literary phenomena, as well as dietary and cultural practices. It offers a broad historical span ranging from ancient thinkers and writers, such as Pythagoras and Ovid, to contemporary novelists, including Ruth L. Ozeki and Jonathan Franzen. The expansive historical scope is complemented by a cross-cultural focus which emphasises that the philosophy behind these diets has developed through a dialogic relationship between east and west. The book demonstrates, also, the way in which carnivorism has functioned as an ideology, one which has underpinned actions harmful to both human and non-human animals.

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    ‘What we have here is a monograph in food studies that transforms the field as a whole. The scope of this project is expansive, the analysis is consistently delightful, and the argument is original, making an important contribution to literary histories of vegetarianism.'

    Gitanjali Shahani - San Francisco State University

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