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

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).

'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

• 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.