TY - BOOK AU - Geier,Ted TI - Meat markets: the cultural history of bloody London SN - 9781474424721 AV - PR468 .M438 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - English literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Animals in literature KW - Meat in literature KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - "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."-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1584937&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -