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Neo-Victorian Cannibalism: A Theory of Contemporary Adaptations

Neo-Victorian Cannibalism: A Theory of Contemporary Adaptations
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Neo-Victorian Cannibalism: A Theory of Contemporary Adaptations

1st ed. 2019 edition 

by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho (Author) 

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.

Year:
2019
Pages:
152
Language:
English
Format:
PDF
Size:
2 MB
ISBN-10:
3030025586
ISBN-13:
978-3030025588
ASIN:
B07NDTTMY2