Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Laura Wright (Professor of English, Western Carolina University) ,  Emelia Quinn (Assistant Professor of World Literatures & Environmental Humanities, University of Amsterdam)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781399557085

ISBN 10:   1399557084
Pages:   386
Publication Date:   01 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not yet available  
This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release.
Language:   English

Table of Contents

Section One: Introduction Vegan Studies 1.1 Introduction - Emelia Quinn and Laura Wright 1.2 Annotated Bibliography - Emelia Quinn and Laura Wright Section Two: Themes and Theoretical Perspectives 2.1 Veganism and Women’s Writing - Carol J. Adams 2.2 Veganism and Modernism - Catherine Brown 2.3 Veganism and Science Fiction - Joshua Bulleid 2.4 Veganism and Animals - Sune Borkfelt 2.5 Veganism and Race - Ruth Ramsden-Karelse 2.6 Veganism, Gender, and Queerness - Rasmus R. Simonsen 2.7 Veganism and Postcolonial Identity - Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond 2.8. Veganism and the Monstrous - Emelia Quinn 2.9 Veganism and Disordered Eating - Laura Wright Section Three: Genres and Forms 3.1. Prose - Amy-Leigh Gray and Dana Medoro 3.2 Poetry - Stewart Cole 3.3 The Graphic Novel - Glenn Willmott 3.4 Adaptation - Christopher Sebastian 3.5 The Philosophical Essay - Josh Milburn 3.6 The Exposé - Sangamithra Iyer 3.7 Realism - Samantha Pergadia 3.8 Memoir - Armin Langer 3.9 Young Adult - Ali Ryland 3.10 Satire - Nicole Seymour 3.11 Utopian Fiction - John Miller 3.12 Speculative Fiction - Jovian Parry Section Four: Textual Histories and Contexts 4.1 Ancient Scripture - Lisa Kemmerer 4.2 Long Nineteenth Century Ephemera - James Gregory 4.3 Society Writings - Corey Wrenn 4.4 Modern Literary Production - Martin Rowe

Reviews

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.--Philip Armstrong, University of Canterbury

Author Information

Emelia Quinn is Assistant Professor of World Literatures & Environmental Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. She is author of Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present (Oxford University Press, 2021) and co-editor of Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture: Towards a Vegan Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Countries Available

All regions