6 September 2021
The book’s identification of the figure of “the monstrous vegan” challenges traditional associations of veganism with positivity, health and purity, by pointing to those literary figures since the Romantic period whose veganism has challenged the boundaries of the human. Such figures are often intimately connected to acts of writing.
Ranging from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to J.M. Coetzee and Alan Hollinghurst, the book uses a broad historical and theoretical corpus to challenge the way we think about literature, but also about our own relationship to animals, food and forms of ethical behaviour. Reading Veganism is published by Oxford University Press and is available in hardback and as an ebook.