Neo-Victorian Cannibalism A Theory of Contemporary Adaptations /

• Main Author: Ho, Tammy Lai-Ming (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: 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.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter One: Introduction: Neo-Victorian Cannibalism
• Chapter Two: Contesting (Post-)colonialism: Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea and Three Neo-Victorian Rejoinders
• Chapter Three: Dickens the Cannibal Cannibalised
• Chapter Four: Stoker and Neo-Draculas
• Chapter Five: Coda: Victorian Memes. .