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

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

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

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

by James Gregory
Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-century Britain

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

by James Gregory

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781845113797
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/29/2007
Series: International Library of Historical Studies
Pages: 328
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

James Gregory is Lecturer in Modern History at the School of Social and International Studies at the University of Bradford.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The Vegetarian Movement, c.1838-1901
2. Physical Puritanism and Medical Orthodoxy
3. Beasts and Saints: Zoophilia and Religion in the Movement
4. Radicalism and Fadicalism
5. Feeding the Vegetarian Mind and Body
6. Class, Gender and the Vegetarians
7. Representing the Vegetarian
Conclusion

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