Neo-Victorian Cannibalism [electronic resource] : a Theory of Contemporary Adaptations / by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho.

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Neo-Victorian Cannibalism [electronic resource] : a Theory of Contemporary Adaptations / by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho.

9783030025595
3030025594
3030025586
9783030025588

Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2019 : Imprint Palgrave Pivot

English

1 online resource (VIII, 150 pages) : online resource

10.1007/978-3-030-02

PN695-PN779

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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 genres origin, its conflicted, ambivalent and violent relationship with its Victorian predecessors and the grotesque and gothic effects that it generates in its fiction.

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