Book contents
- Food and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Food and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Chapter 1 Commensality
- Chapter 2 The Drive-Thru Supermarket
- Chapter 3 Gothic Vegetarianism
- Chapter 4 Good Taste, Good Food, and the Gastronome
- Chapter 5 The Art of the Recipe
- Chapter 6 Existential Disgust and the Food of the Philosopher
- Part II Developments
- Part III Applications
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Concepts (continued from page iii)
- References
Chapter 3 - Gothic Vegetarianism
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Book contents
- Food and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Food and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Chapter 1 Commensality
- Chapter 2 The Drive-Thru Supermarket
- Chapter 3 Gothic Vegetarianism
- Chapter 4 Good Taste, Good Food, and the Gastronome
- Chapter 5 The Art of the Recipe
- Chapter 6 Existential Disgust and the Food of the Philosopher
- Part II Developments
- Part III Applications
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Concepts (continued from page iii)
- References
Summary
This paper examines the travel accounts from the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries of a number of European travellers to and sojourners in the coastal cities of western India. Among the ethnographic details that attracted the attention of these observers was an ensemble of practices broadly glossed as “Gentile” or “Gentoo” vegetarianism and protection of nonhuman animals. To many European observers these Gentiles were distinguished by a religiously mandated compassion towards nonhuman life that for many functioned as a rebuke to the ways of putatively more bloodthirsty European compatriots. But, as many noted with bemusement, shock, and occasional horror, Gentile endeavours to protect nonhuman life exceeded these benevolent measures, extending to the establishment of animal hospitals, some of which offered sanctuary to noxious and verminous forms of nonhuman life. Such putatively extreme or perverse forms of vegetarianism or nonviolence coexisted, as many noted, with unusual and perverse forms of cruelty, especially against widows and carnivores, and gave subcontinental vegetarianism a strikingly gothic character.
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