Vegetarianism and Science Fiction

Vegetarianism and Science Fiction

A History of Utopian Animal Ethics

Bulleid, Joshua

Springer International Publishing AG

10/2024

336

Mole

9783031383496

15 a 20 dias

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1 The Speculative Politics of Meat: Utopia, Carnism, and Critical Animal Studies.- Utopia and Science Fiction.- Carnism and Speciesism.- Vegetarianism and Veganism.- Critical Animal Studies.- Food Studies and Science Fiction.- Chapter Breakdown.- References.- 2 Feed My Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Romantic Vegetarian Precedent.- Percy Shelley's Vegetarian Vindication.- Frankenstein.- Frankenstein's Fall.- Child of Nature.- The Creature's Fall.- Children of Cain.- Ecocritical Inclinations.- The Last Man and Others.- Conclusion.- References.- 3 You Are What You Eat: Bestiality and Other "Carnal Cravings" in the Works of H. G. Wells.- Darwinism.- The Time Machine.- The Island of Doctor Moreau.- The War of the Worlds.- Later Scientific Romances and Mainstream Novels.- Modern Utopias.- Conclusion.- References.- 4 My God, It's Full of Starch! Arthur C. Clarke, Alternative Meat, and the Hunting Hypothesis.- Alternative Meat and the Dystopian Tradition.- Space Exploration and Environmental Sustainability.- Ethical Endorsements and Buddhist Influences.- Space Odyssey Series and the Hunting Hypothesis.- Conclusion.- References.- 5 Should Androids Eat Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick, Interspecies Empathy, and Animal Liberation.- Early Empathetic Experiences.- Early Short Stories and Novels.- Dr Bloodmoney.- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.- Blade Runner.- Later Theological Turn.- Conclusion.- References.- 6 The Critical Carnist Shift: Marge Piercy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ernest Callenbach, Octavia E. Butler and the Critical Utopian Period.- The Critical Utopian Canon.- Piercy's Primitivist and Post-Catastrophic Carnisms.- Coming Home to Carnism in Le Guin.- Callenbach's Carnist Ecotopia(s).- Octavia E. Butler.- Patternist.- Xenogenesis.- Later Parables.- Conclusion.- References.- 7 Where's the Beef? Kim Stanley Robinson's Carnist Climate Change Catastrophes.- Future Primitive.- Three Californias.- Mars Trilogy and Other Space Colonisation Novels.- Science in the Capital.- Climate Policy.- Buddhism.- Nineteenth-Century Influences.- Nonhuman Subjectivity.- (Erasure of) Nonhuman Sympathy.- The Ministry for the Future.- Conclusion.- References.- 8 That Way Maddness Lies: Returning to Carnism in Margaret Atwood's Science Fiction.- Survivalism and Realist Fiction.- The Handmaids' Tales.- The Blind Assassin and Later Realist Fiction.- The MaddAddam Trilogy.- Children of "Nature".- Inner Animality.- Alternative Meats.- Sexual Politics.- Interspecies Empathy and Animal Activism.- Neocarnist Environmentalism.- Conclusion.- References.- 9 The Last Word in Gastronomy? Veganism, Ecocriticism, Pandemic Science Fiction and the Future.- Veganism.- Climate Fiction and Ecocriticism.- Pandemic Science Fiction.- Looking Forward.- References.
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Literature and Animal Studies;Literature and the Environment;Science Fiction;vegetarianism;veganism;utopian studies