Abstract:This essay examines how Francis William Newman used the formal characteristics of the press to introduce reforms to the Vegetarian Society in the 1870s. As president, Newman controversially restructured membership in the society along the model of serial instalments, harnessed the dialogism of the press to reimagine vegetarian eating as a conversation among its practitioners, and used the periodical's characteristic mixture of repetition and difference to expand the vegetarian palate. This paper demonstrates how Newman and the Vegetarian Society employed serial print media not to enforce total abstinence from flesh but to create new regimes of self-care and self-government, allowing readers to shape themselves into vegetarian subjects through their participation in the movement.

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纽曼的转变：分期付款计划中的弗朗西斯·威廉·纽曼和素食主义

摘要：本文考察了弗朗西斯·威廉·纽曼 (Francis William Newman) 如何利用报刊的形式特征在 1870 年代对素食协会进行改革。作为总裁，纽曼以连续分期付款的模式重新调整了社会成员资格，利用媒体的对话将素食重新想象为从业者之间的对话，并利用期刊特有的重复和差异混合来扩大素食口味。这篇论文展示了纽曼和素食协会如何利用连续印刷媒体不是强制完全禁欲肉体，而是创造自我保健和自治的新制度，让读者通过参与运动将自己塑造成素食主义者。