Neo-Victorian Cannibalism

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

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• Contos de horror e fantasmas
• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900
• Estudos literários: desde ~ 1900
• Literatura: história e crítica

neo-Victorian fiction;Victorian fiction;cannibalism in literature;Bram Stoker;Dracula;Jane Eyre;gothic literature;Gaynor Arnold;Richard Flanagan;Charles Dickens;Tom Holland;Leslie S. Klinger;Dacre Stoker;Ian Holt;Wide Sargasso Sea;A.S. Byatt;adaptations of Jane Eyre;adaptations of Wurthering Heights;Gothic fiction