Neo-Victorian Cannibalism A Theory of Contemporary Adaptations /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Ho, Tammy Lai-Ming (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Comparative literature.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Gothic fiction (Literary genre).; Contemporary Literature.; Comparative Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Gothic Fiction.
• Φυσική περιγραφή: VIII, 150 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030025595
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-02559-5

This Pivot examines a body of contemporary neo-Victorian novels whose uneasy relationship with the past can be theorised in terms of aggressive eating, including cannibalism. Not only is the imagery of eating repeatedly used by critics to comprehend neo-Victorian literature, the theme of cannibalism itself also appears overtly or implicitly in a number of the novels and their Victorian prototypes, thereby mirroring the cannibalistic relationship between the contemporary and the Victorian. Tammy Lai-Ming Ho argues that aggressive eating or cannibalism can be seen as a pathological and defining characteristic of neo-Victorian fiction, demonstrating how cannibalism provides a framework for understanding the genre's origin, its conflicted, ambivalent and violent relationship with its Victorian predecessors and the grotesque and gothic effects that it generates in its fiction.