| Description |
1 online resource (x, 184 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Animals in literature.
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London (England) -- In literature.
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Meat in literature.
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Animals in literature. (OCoLC)fst00809580
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English literature. (OCoLC)fst00911989
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
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Meat in literature. (OCoLC)fst01903881
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England -- London.
(OCoLC)fst01204271
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Geier, Ted (Theodore). Meat markets. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017] 9781474424714 (OCoLC)969425444 |
| ISBN |
9781474424721 (electronic bk.) |
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1474424724 (electronic bk.) |
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9781474434522 (electronic book) |
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1474434525 (electronic book) |
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