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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-Victorian literature, the theme of cannibalism itself also
appears overtly or implicitly in a number of the novels and their
Victorian prototypes, thereby mirroring the cannibalistic
relationship between the contemporary and the Victorian. Tammy
Lai-Ming Ho argues that aggressive eating or cannibalism can be
seen as a pathological and defining characteristic of neo-Victorian
fiction, demonstrating how cannibalism provides a framework for
understanding the genre's origin, its conflicted, ambivalent and
violent relationship with its Victorian predecessors and the
grotesque and gothic effects that it generates in its fiction.
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