Neo-Victorian cannibalism : a theory of contemporary adaptations /: a theory of contemporary adaptations. (2019)
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- Book
- Title:
- Neo-Victorian cannibalism : a theory of contemporary adaptations /: a theory of contemporary adaptations. (2019)
- Main Title:
- Neo-Victorian cannibalism : a theory of contemporary adaptations
- Further Information:
- Note: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho.
- Authors:
- Ho, Tammy Lai-Ming
- Contents:
- Chapter OneIntroduction: Neo-Victorian Cannibalism Chapter Two Contesting (Post-)colonialism: Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea and Three Neo-Victorian Rejoinders I. Writing back: Victorian colonialism, neo-Victorian postcolonialism II. Jane Eyre: The colonial, cannibal and Caribbean connection III. Cannibalising text: Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea IV. Cannibalising Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea: Three neo-Victorian rejoinders V. Conclusion: Literary ouroboros Chapter Three Dickens the Cannibal Cannibalised I. Neo-Victorian biofiction II. The neo-Victorian appeal of Dickens III. Introducing Girl in a Blue Dress IV. Girl in a Blue Dress: Dickens the cannibal cannibalised V. Conclusion: The creation of new identities through cannibalism Chapter Four Stoker and Neo-Draculas I. Cannibalistic Dracula II. Neo-Victorian double cannibalism: textual and biographical III. Stoker's authorial vulnerability IV. Tom Holland's Supping with Panthers V. Leslie S. Klinger's The New Annotated Dracula VI. Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt's Dracula the Un-Dead VII. Conclusion: 'dragging their fantasies' Chapter Five Coda: Victorian Memes.
- Publisher Details:
- Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 809.3
Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Cannibalism in literature - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783030025595
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783030025588
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