Of Victorians and Vegetarians
The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-century Britain
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 23 July 2020
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350173828
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 216x140 mm
- Weight 381 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 25 illustrations 114
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Long description:
Nineteenth-century Britain was one of the birthplaces of modern vegetarianism in the west, and was to become a reform movement attracting thousands of people. From the Vegetarian Society's foundation in 1847, men, women and their families abandoned conventional diet for reasons as varied as self-advancement, personal thrift, dissatisfaction with medical orthodoxy and repugnance for animal cruelty. They joined in the pursuit of a perfect society in which food reform combined with causes such as socialism and land reform, stimulated by the concern that carnivorism was in league with alcoholism and bellicosity.
Gregory provides a thorough exploration of the movement, with its often colourful and sometimes eccentric leaders and grass-roots supporters. He explores the rich culture of branch associations, competing national societies, proliferating restaurants and food stores and experiments in vegetarian farms and colonies. Of Victorians and Vegetarians examines the wider significance of Victorian vegetarians, embracing concerns about gender and class, national identity, race and empire and religious authority.
Vegetarianism embodied the Victorians' complicated response to modernity in its hostility to aspects of the industrial world's exploitation of technology, rejecting entrepreneurial attempts to create the foods and substitute artefacts of the future. Hostile, like the associated anti-vivisectionists and anti-vaccinationists, to a new 'priesthood' of scientists, vegetarians defended themselves through the new sciences of nutrition and chemistry. Of Victorians and Vegetarians uncovers who the vegetarians were, how they attempted to convert their fellow Britons (and the world beyond) to their 'bloodless diet' and the response of contemporaries in a variety of media and genres. Through a close study of the vegetarian periodicals and organisational archives, extensive biographical research and a broader examination of texts relating to food, dietary reform and allied reform movements, James Gregory provides us with the first fascinating foray into the impact of vegetarianism on the Victorians, the history of animal welfare, reform movements and food history.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. The Vegetarian Movement, c.1838-1901
2. Physical Puritanism and Medical Orthodoxy
3. Beasts and Saints: Zoophilia and Religion in the Movement
4. Radicalism and Fadicalism
5. Feeding the Vegetarian Mind and Body
6. Class, Gender and the Vegetarians
7. Representing the Vegetarian
Conclusion
