A Future to Her Taste The Gender Politics of Diet in Late Nineteenth-Century Speculative Fiction By Lucy Coleman Abstract In this dissertation, I argue that the speculative fiction of the 1880s encodes cultural anxieties about the shifting status of women through representations of diet. Drawing on Carol J. Adams’ The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990), I examine how vegetarianism is linked to feminine passivity in early feminist utopias such as Mary Lane’s Mizora (1889) and Elizabeth Corbett’s New Amazonia (1889), where meatless diets support peaceful yet emotionally restrained societies. These texts present carnivorism as a masculine practice, reaffirming a historical myth which also influences the dystopian responses to women’s rights literature. The anxieties expressed in these dystopias are grounded in the ideals articulated by early feminists like Lane and Corbett. In William Butler’s Pantaletta (1882), the success of the s...
Annie and Lucy's list of book recommendations from their English Literature professors! (This is our first summer without a reading list and we cannot think for ourselves) Andrew Bennett D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow James Joyce, Ulysses (Skip the first three chapters) Theo Savvas Thomas Hardy, Tess of D'Urbervilles Thomas Mann, 'Death in Venice' (short story) Henry James, Portrait of a Lady James Joyce, Ulysses Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying William Wootten John Richardson's four-volume biography of Picasso Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, Penguin Translation (and all of Pessoa's Poetry) Stephen James Rosamond Lehmann, Dusty Answer Ad Putter George Eliot, Silas Marner His own book, Medieval Love Letters (lol) Noreen Masud Noreen Masud, A Flat Place Stephen Cheeke Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past ( Swann's Way ) translation by Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin "I fe...
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