Abjective ecologies of British humans, animals, and other nonhumans
in cultural forms of nineteenth-century literature, from Dracula to
Bovril Meat Markets articulates the emergent 'nonhuman thought'
developed across literatures of the long nineteenth century and
inflecting recent critical theories of abject life and animality.
It presents important connections between meat and popular serial
press industries, the intersections of criminals and public
readership, and the long history of bloody spectacle at London's
Smithfield Market including public executions, criminal escapades,
death and horror tales, and the fungible 'penny press' forms of
mass consumption. Through analysis of subjection, address, and
narration in canonical and penny literatures, this book reveals the
mutual forces of concern and consumption that afflict objects of a
weird cultural history of bloody London across the long nineteenth
century. Players include butchers, Smithfield, Parliament, Dickens,
Romantics, Sweeney Todd, cattle, and a strange, impossible London.
Key Features Articulates the emergent 'nonhuman thought' developed
across literatures of the long nineteenth century and inflecting
recent critical theories of abject life and animality Shows the
productive contradictions in social and animal concern as it
produces anonymous, 'biopolitical' objects in literature, food
culture, and London society Presents important connections between
meat and popular serial press industries, the intersections of
criminals and public readership, and the long history of bloody
spectacle at London's Smithfield Market including public
executions, criminal escapades, death and horror tales, and the
fungible 'penny press' forms of mass consumption
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