Neo-Victorian Cannibalism: A Theory of Contemporary Adaptations

by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030025586
• ISBN13: 9783030025588
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"