Meat markets : the cultural history of bloody London /
Geier, Ted
Meat markets : the cultural history of bloody London / Ted Geier. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (x, 184 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover -- Meat Markets -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 A Parliament of Monsters -- Chapter 2 Meat without Animals -- Chapter 3 Mass Production -- Conclusion -- Index.
"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."--
9781474424721 9781474434522
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Animals in literature.
Meat in literature.
Electronic Books.
PR468 / .M438 2017
Meat markets : the cultural history of bloody London / Ted Geier. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (x, 184 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover -- Meat Markets -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 A Parliament of Monsters -- Chapter 2 Meat without Animals -- Chapter 3 Mass Production -- Conclusion -- Index.
"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."--
9781474424721 9781474434522
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Animals in literature.
Meat in literature.
Electronic Books.
PR468 / .M438 2017