Modernism

Brown, Catherine (2022) Modernism. In: The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474493314

Abstract

Starting with Hardy, who stands at the beginning of the period of modernism as broadly conceived, this chapter considers how a sample of writers (Hardy, Tolstoy, Sinclair, Grahame, London, Saki, Williamson, Lawrence, Golding) – almost none of them vegetarians, but all manifesting elements of a vegan consciousness as equally broadly conceived – explored the category of the human in relation to its treatment of non-human animals. Thus focused, the chapter complements the considerable body of work that has already been done on modernist literary representations of animals per se (by critics including Margot Norris and Carrie Rohman). It argues that the texts discussed, albeit frequently morally-conflicted, may through their effects on readers practically conduce to, as well as imaginatively construct, that more vegan future which would avoid the worst threatened effects of climate change, pandemic generation, and antibiotics resistance.

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