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Meat Markets : The Cultural History of Bloody London / Ted Geier.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (200 p.) : 9 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474424714
  • 9781474424721
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9008 23
LOC classification:
  • PR468.A56 G45 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: ‘A condition more abject . . .’ Meat City and Nonhuman Objects -- Chapter 1 A Parliament of Monsters: Romantic Nonhumans and Victorian Erasure -- Chapter 2 Meat without Animals: Outcast Objects and the Improvement of London -- Chapter 3 Mass Production: Impossible London’s Criminal Subjects -- Conclusion: Post-meat -- Index
Summary: Abjective ecologies of British humans, animals, and other nonhumans in cultural forms of nineteenth-century literature, from Dracula to BovrilMeat 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 FeaturesArticulates the emergent ‘nonhuman thought’ developed across literatures of the long nineteenth century and inflecting recent critical theories of abject life and animalityShows the productive contradictions in social and animal concern as it produces anonymous, ‘biopolitical’ objects in literature, food culture, and London societyPresents 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: ‘A condition more abject . . .’ Meat City and Nonhuman Objects -- Chapter 1 A Parliament of Monsters: Romantic Nonhumans and Victorian Erasure -- Chapter 2 Meat without Animals: Outcast Objects and the Improvement of London -- Chapter 3 Mass Production: Impossible London’s Criminal Subjects -- Conclusion: Post-meat -- Index

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Abjective ecologies of British humans, animals, and other nonhumans in cultural forms of nineteenth-century literature, from Dracula to BovrilMeat 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 FeaturesArticulates the emergent ‘nonhuman thought’ developed across literatures of the long nineteenth century and inflecting recent critical theories of abject life and animalityShows the productive contradictions in social and animal concern as it produces anonymous, ‘biopolitical’ objects in literature, food culture, and London societyPresents 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

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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