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COVER

TITLE PAGE

DEDICATION

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION

I: GRASS ROOTS

1 Bushell’s Bushel, Bacon’s Bacon and The Great Instauration

2 John Robins: The Shakers’ God

3 Roger Crab: Levelling the Food Chain

4 Pythagoras and the Sages of India

5 ‘This proud and troublesome Thing, called Man’: Thomas Tryon, the Brahmin of Britain

6 John Evelyn: Salvation in a Salad

7 The Kabbala Stripped Naked

8 Men Should be Friends even to Brute Beasts: Isaac Newton and the Origins of Pagan Theology

9 Atheists, Deists and the Turkish Spy

II: MEATLESS MEDICINE

10 Dieting with Dr Descartes

11 Tooth and Nail: Pierre Gassendi and the Human Appendix

12 The Mitre and the Microscope: Philippe Hecquet’s Catholic Fast Food

13 Dr Cheyne’s Sensible Diet

14 Clarissa’s Calories

15 Rousseau and the Bosoms of Nature

16 The Counter-Vegetarian Mascot: Pope’s Happy Lamb

17 Antonio Cocchi and the Cure for Scurvy

18 The Sparing Diet: Scotland’s Vegetarian Dynasty

III: ROMANTIC DINNERS

19 Diet and Diplomacy: Eating Beef in the Land of the Holy Cow

20 John Zephaniah Holwell: Voltaire’s Hindu Prophet

21 The Cry of Nature: Killing in the Name of Animal Rights in the French Revolution

22 The Marquis de Valady faces the Guillotine

23 Bloodless Brothers

24 John ‘Walking’ Stewart and the Utility of Death

25 To Kill a Cat: Joseph Ritson’s Politics of Atheism

26 Shelley and the Return to Nature

27 The Malthusian Tragedy: Feeding the World

EPILOGUE

ABBREVIATIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NOTES

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