Meat and the Medicalization of Diet in Modernist Fiction

肉类消费在世纪早期被医学化，它被认为是治疗各种疾病的灵丹妙药，也被诋毁为健康危害。本项目调查小说作家对这一现象的反应，探索福斯特和赫胥黎的肉和神秘主义;理查森的饮食著作;曼斯菲尔德和劳伦斯的肉作为肺结核治疗;通过伍尔夫对选举权活动家和精神病患者的强制喂食;以及乔伊斯的医学训练，以了解肉（1922年）。追踪占主导地位的医学和伪医学的话语吃肉，我认为，食肉转移我们的注意力，在摄入文学的利益，以及身体和文本之间的关系。

Alternately deemed a miracle cure for a variety of diseases and denigrated as a health hazard, meat consumption was medicalized in the early twentieth century. This project investigates fiction writers' responses to this phenomenon, exploring meat and mysticism in Forster and Huxley; Richardson's dietary writings; meat as tuberculosis treatment in Mansfield and Lawrence; the force-feeding of suffrage activitsts and psychiatric patients, via Woolf; and Joyce's medical training to understand meat in Ulysses (1922). Tracing dominant medical and pseudo-medical discourses on meat-eating, I argue that carnivory shifts our attention to literary interests in ingestion, and the relationship between bodies and texts.