Literature and Meat Since 1900

1. Introduction: Meat Critique, Seán McCorry and John Miller.- 2. Inside the “Butcher’s Shop”:  Women’s Great War Writing and Surgical Meat, Vicki Tromanhauser.- 3. Kafka’s Meat: Beautiful Processes and Perfect Victims, Ted Geier.- 4. Carnophallogocentrism and the Act of Eating Meat in Two Novels by Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Taylor, Adrian Tait.- 5. “Necessary Murder”: Eating Meat against Fascism in Orwell and Auden, Stewart Cole.- 6. The Literary Invention of in Vitro Meat: Ontology, Nostalgia and Debt in Pohl and Kornbluth’s The Space Merchants, John Miller.- 7. “They’ll Be Breeding Us Like Cattle!”: Population Ecology and Human Exceptionalism in Soylent Green, Seán McCorry.- 8. Herring Fisheries, Fish-Eating and Natural History in W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn, Dominic O’Key.- 9. “A Grain of Brain”: Women and Farm Animals in Collections by Ariana Reines and Selima Hill, Rachael Allen.- 10. Narrative Possibilities in Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats, Sarika Chandra.- 11. Crossing the Barriers of Taste: The Alimentary Materialism of Jim Crace’s The Devil's Larder, Sarah Bezan.- 12. Belonging to this World: On Living Like an Animal in Michel Faber’s Under the Skin, Matthew Calarco.- 13. Dance With Nothing But Heart (2001): Death, the “Animal” and the Queer “Taste” of the Other, Ruth Lipschitz.- 14. Meanings of Meat in Videogames, Tom Tyler.