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.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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. .