Theophilus Savvas (University of Bristol)

Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9781009287258
• ISBN-10: 1009287257
• Artikelnr.: 69963191

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.