Neo-Victorian Cannibalism : a Theory of Contemporary Adaptations

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Label

Neo-Victorian Cannibalism : a Theory of Contemporary Adaptations

Title remainder

a Theory of Contemporary Adaptations

Statement of responsibility

by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho

Creator

• Ho, Tammy Lai-Ming

Subject

• Comparative literature
• Comparative literature
• Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
• 1800-1999
• Literature, Modern
• Literature, Modern -- 19th century
• Literature, Modern -- 20th century
• Gothic fiction (Literary genre)

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

LQU

Dewey number

809

Index

no index present

LC call number

PN695-PN779

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries