Children’s Vegetarian Culture in the Victorian Era: The Juvenile Food Reformers Press and Literary Change...

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Marzena Kubisz

Children’s Vegetarian Culture in the Victorian Era

The Juvenile Food Reformers Press and Literary Change

Marzena Kubisz

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Routledge
19 September 2024

Social & cultural history; Animals & society; Age groups: children; Dietetics & nutrition; Vegetarian cookery

Series: Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media

This book fills a unique gap in the research on the cultural history of vegetarianism and veganism, children's literature and Victorian periodicals, and it is the first publication to systematically describe the phenomenon of Victorian children’s vegetarianism and its representations in literature and culture.

Situated in the broad socio-literary context spanning the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the book lays the groundwork for contemporary children’s vegan literature and argues that present ethical and environmental concerns can be traced back to the Victorian period. Following the current turn in contemporary research on children, their experience and their voices, the author examines children’s vegetarian culture through the prism of the periodicals aimed directly at them. It analyses how vegetarian principles were communicated to children and listens to the voices of children who were vegetarians, and who tested their newly formed identity in the pages of three magazines published between 1893 and 1914: The Daisy Basket, The Children’s Garden and The Children’s Realm.

This book will appeal to the growing body of researchers interested in the social, cultural and literary aspects of vegetarianism and veganism, human–animal relations, childhood studies, children’s literature, periodical studies and Victorian studies.

By: Marzena Kubisz
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032508689
ISBN 10: 103250868X
Series: Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media
Pages: 166
Publication Date: 19 September 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Marzena Kubisz is an Associate Professor in literary studies in the Institute of Literary Studies, University of Silesia, Poland. Her academic interests are in children’s literature, resistance studies, slow culture, animal studies and vegan studies. Marzena’s research focuses on everyday resistance in terms of its corporeal dimensions and cultural acceleration. Her publications in vegan studies include essays about vegan bodies, representations of veganism in film and the place of vegan studies in academia. Recently, she has published a chapter on vegan literature for children in The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies (2021). She is an organiser of Polish annual vegan studies seminars and an Associate Editor of the Polish academic journal Er(r)go. Theory-Literature-Culture.