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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.

Fiction --- Thematology --- Comparative literature --- Literature --- kannibalen --- Gothic --- literatuur --- Stoker, Bram --- Tennant, Emma --- Thomas, D.M. --- Haire-Sargeant, Lin --- Rhys, Jean --- Dickens, Charles --- Brontë, Charlotte --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999

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‘At last we have a definitive guide to the marriage between contemporary women’s fiction and the Gothic, which gleefully plunges the romance plot into darkness and prises heroines away from constraining narratives in an endless series of reinventions from the Cartesque through to the post-colonial.’ – Marie Mulvey-Roberts, University of the West of England, UK This book revives and revitalises the literary Gothic in the hands of contemporary women writers. It makes a scholarly, lively and convincing case that the Gothic makes horror respectable, and establishes contemporary women’s Gothic fictions in and against traditional Gothic. The book provides new, engaging perspectives on established contemporary women Gothic writers, with a particular focus on Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison. It explores how the Gothic is malleable in their hands and is used to demythologise oppressions based on difference in gender and ethnicity. The study presents new Gothic work and new nuances, critiques of dangerous complacency and radical questionings of what is safe and conformist in works as diverse as Twilight (Stephenie Meyer) and A Girl Walks Home Alone (Ana Lily Amirpur), as well as by Anne Rice and Poppy Brite. It also introduces and critically explores postcolonial, vampire and neohistorical Gothic and women’s ghost stories.

Philosophical anthropology --- Affective and dynamic functions --- Ethics of family. Ethics of sexuality --- Sociology of culture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology --- Didactics of the arts --- Film --- Psycholinguistics --- Literature --- vampieren --- psychologie --- sociologie --- postkolonialisme --- Gothic --- cultuur --- feminisme --- film --- literatuur --- vrouwen --- seksualiteit --- gender --- psycholinguïstiek --- wereldliteratuur --- creatief schrijven --- Meyer, Stephenie --- Carter, Angela --- Mootoo, Shani --- Maurier, du, Daphne --- Dunmore, Helen --- Brodber, Erna --- Oyeyemi, Helen --- Moss, Kate --- Hopkinson, Nalo --- Amirpour, Ana Lily --- Hill, Susan --- Rhys, Jean --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- History and criticism. --- 1900-1999