Neo-Victorian cannibalism : a reading of contemporary neo-Victorian fiction

This thesis is about a body of contemporary neo-Victorian novels whose uneasy relationship with the past can be theorised in terms of aggressive eating, even cannibalism. Cannibalism operates on different levels throughout many works, and there is a sense of surreptitious insistence about it in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ho, Lai Ming
Other Authors: McDonagh, Josephine ; Henderson, Ian Robert
Published: King's College London (University of London) 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.628318