Meat markets : the cultural history of bloody London / Ted Geier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geier, Ted (Theodore), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Animals in literature.

London (England)--In literature.

London (England).

Meat in literature.

Literature.

England--London.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 A Parliament of Monsters: Romantic Nonhumans and Victorian Erasure 27

2 Meat without Animals: Outcast Objects and the Improvement of London 77

3 Mass Production: Impossible London's Criminal Subjects 119.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474424714

1474424716

OCLC:

969425444