Neo-Victorian cannibalism : a theory of contemporary adaptations /: a theory of contemporary adaptations. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• 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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