Neo-Victorian Cannibalism A Theory of Contemporary Adaptations
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-V
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Neo-Victorian Cannibalism
Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
Neo-Victorian Cannibalism A Theory of Contemporary Adaptations
Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Hong Kong Baptist University Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
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If you wish to preserve the spirit of a dead author, you must not skin him, stuff him, and set him up in a case. You must eat him, digest him, and let him live in you, with such life as you have, for better or worse. —Samuel Butler
Contents
1 Introduction: Neo-Victorian Cannibalism 1 References 5 2 Contesting (Post-)colonialism: Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea and Three Neo-Victorian Rejoinders 7 1 Writing Back: Victorian Colonialism, Neo-Victorian Postcolonialism 7 2 Jane Eyre: The Colonial, Cannibal and Caribbean Connection 14 3 The Cannibalising Text: Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea 24 4 Cannibalising Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea: Three Neo-Victorian Rejoinders 30 5 Conclusion: Literary Ouroboros 49 References 49 3 Dickens: The Cannibal Cannibalised 55 1 Neo-Victorian Biofiction 55 2 The Neo-Victorian Appeal of Dickens 58 3 Introducing Girl in a Blue Dress 64 4 Girl in a Blue Dress: Dickens the Cannibal Cannibalised 67 5 Conclusion: The Creation of New Identities Through Cannibalism 82 References 84 vii
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4 Stoker and Neo-Draculas 89 1 Neo-Victorian Double Cannibalism: Textual and Biographical 90 2 Sto
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