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Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By James Gregory

Book information

Publisher
Tauris Academic Studies
Year
2007
ISBN
1845113799, 9781845113797
Open Library ID
OL22757244M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5498863 bytes)
Series
International Library of Historical Studies
Pages
313\327
Topic
History
Library
demonoid.me
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

Nineteenth-century Britain was one of the birthplaces of modern vegetarianism in the West. In 'Of Victorians and Vegetarians' James Gregory explores the relationship between this newly organized movement and wider culture and society. It evolved with a myriad of meanings and voices: partly for propagandist reasons, but also because of the varied motivations and characteristcs of vegetarians. Teetotallers, animal lovers, mystics, spiritualists and theosophists, as well as those who saw the diet as an effective and democratic medical treatment, all provided the constituents for a movement whose critics associated it with radicalism and faddism. Frequently counter-cultural, in its association with socialism and communitarianism throughout the period, vegetarianism also expressed in heightened form the already well-established values of self-help, philanthropy, thrift, Puritanism, domesticity and a belief in progress

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