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Seán McCorry is Honorary Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is currently working on his first monograph on technology and species difference in postwar culture. He is co-founder of ShARC (Sheffield Animal Studies Research Centre).
John Miller is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. His books include Empire and the Animal Body (2012) and (with Louise Miller) Walrus (2014). He is co-editor of Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature, co-director of ShARC (Sheffield Animal Studies Research Centre) and Deputy Chair of ASLE-UKI (Association for Study of Literature and the Environment, UK & Ireland).
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
