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Trixy - A Novel (Paperback)
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Trixy - A Novel (Paperback)
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Trixy is a 1904 novel by the best-selling but largely forgotten
American author and women's rights activist Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
(1844-1911). The book decries the then-common practice of
vivisection, or scientic experiments on live animals. Though not
well known today, Phelps's 1868 spiritualist novel, The Gates Ajar,
which offered a comforting view of the afterlife to readers
traumatized by the Civil War, was the century's second best-selling
American novel, surpassed only by Uncle Tom's Cabin. Recently
scholars and readers have begun to reexamine Phelps's significance.
In Trixy, contemporary readers can trace the roots of the early
animal rights movement in Phelps' influential campaign to introduce
legislation to regulate or end vivisection. Phelps not only
presents a narrative polemic against the cruelty of vivisection but
argues that training young doctors in vivisection makes them bad
physicians. Emily E. VanDette's introduction illuminates that
Phelps' protest writing, which included fiction, pamphlets, essays,
and speeches, was well ahead of its time. As contemporary authors
like Peter Singer, Jonathan Safran Foer, Donna Haraway, Gary
Francione, and Carol J. Adams have extended her vision, they have
also created new audiences for her work.
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