Neo-Victorian Cannibalism: A Theory of Contemporary Adaptations

Introduction: Neo-Victorian Cannibalism                                               

Chapter Two      

Contesting (Post-)colonialism: Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea and Three Neo-Victorian Rejoinders                                       

I.                   Writing back: Victorian colonialism, neo-Victorian postcolonialism

II.                Jane Eyre: The colonial, cannibal and Caribbean connection

III.             Cannibalising text: Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea

IV.             Cannibalising Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea: Three neo-Victorian rejoinders

V.                Conclusion: Literary ouroboros

Chapter Three

Dickens the Cannibal Cannibalised                                      

I.                   Neo-Victorian biofiction

II.                The neo-Victorian appeal of Dickens

III.             Introducing Girl in a Blue Dress

IV.             Girl in a Blue Dress: Dickens the cannibal cannibalised

V.                Conclusion: The creation of new identities through cannibalism

Chapter Four

Stoker and Neo-Draculas                                            

I.                   Cannibalistic Dracula

II.                Neo-Victorian double cannibalism: textual and biographical

III.             Stoker's authorial vulnerability

IV.             Tom Holland's Supping with Panthers

V.                Leslie S. Klinger's The New Annotated Dracula

VI.             Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt's Dracula the Un-Dead

VII. Conclusion: 'dragging their fantasies'

Chapter Five