Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Laura Wright, Emelia Quinn, Western Carolina University) Wright, Laura (Professor of English, University of Amsterdam) Quinn, Emelia (Assistant Professor of World Literatures & Environmental Humanities

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Vegan literary studies has been crystallised over the past few years as a dynamic new specialism, with a transhistorical and transnational scope that both nuances and expands literary history and provides new tools and paradigms through which to approach literary analysis. Vegan studies has emerged alongside the 'animal turn' in the humanities. However, while veganism is often considered as a facet of animal studies, broadly conceived, it is also a distinct entity, an ethical delineator that for many scholars marks a complicated boundary between theoretical pursuit and lived experience. This collection of 25 essays maps and engages with that which might be termed the 'vegan turn' in literary theoretical analysis via essays that explore literature from across a range of historical periods, cultures and textual forms. It provides thematic explorations (such as veganism and race and veganism and gender) and covers a wide range of genres (from the philosophical essay to speculative fiction, and from poetry to the graphic novel, to name a few). The volume also provides an extensive annotated bibliography summarising existing work within the emergent field of vegan studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-09-30
Mått170 x 244 x 28 mm
Vikt826 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
Antal sidor392
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474493314

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Section One: Introduction Vegan Studies1.1 Introduction - Emelia Quinn and Laura Wright1.2 Annotated Bibliography - Emelia Quinn and Laura WrightSection Two: Themes and Theoretical Perspectives2.1 Veganism and Women’s Writing - Carol J. Adams2.2 Veganism and Modernism - Catherine Brown2.3 Veganism and Science Fiction - Joshua Bulleid2.4 Veganism and Animals - Sune Borkfelt2.5 Veganism and Race - Ruth Ramsden-Karelse2.6 Veganism, Gender, and Queerness - Rasmus R. Simonsen2.7 Veganism and Postcolonial Identity - Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond2.8. Veganism and the Monstrous - Emelia Quinn2.9 Veganism and Disordered Eating - Laura WrightSection Three: Genres and Forms3.1. Prose - Amy-Leigh Gray and Dana Medoro3.2 Poetry - Stewart Cole3.3 The Graphic Novel - Glenn Willmott3.4 Adaptation - Christopher Sebastian3.5 The Philosophical Essay - Josh Milburn3.6 The Exposé - Sangamithra Iyer3.7 Realism - Samantha Pergadia3.8 Memoir - Armin Langer3.9 Young Adult - Ali Ryland3.10 Satire - Nicole Seymour3.11 Utopian Fiction - John Miller3.12 Speculative Fiction - Jovian ParrySection Four: Textual Histories and Contexts4.1 Ancient Scripture - Lisa Kemmerer4.2 Long Nineteenth Century Ephemera - James Gregory4.3 Society Writings - Corey Wrenn4.4 Modern Literary Production - Martin Rowe

Laura Wright and Emelia Quinn have held their contributors to very high standards of scholarship, theoretical rigour and composition: each chapter in this volume is as lucid, informative and sophisticated as the one before. Taken as a whole, the book combines prodigious scope with granular attention to detail. Readers who want a history of vegan literary studies, or a survey of the field’s theoretical repertoire, will find in these pages everything they need. But so too will those interested in particular authors and works, or those with specific questions about how vegan critical practice might enrich close analysis of a scene from narrative fiction, a frame from a graphic novel, a passage in a tract, or a line of poetry.