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Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature

Palgrave Macmillan

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Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Cannibal Narratives: An Introduction

    • Heather Blurton
    Pages 1-13
  3. Postscript

    • Heather Blurton
    Pages 133-137
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 139-202

About this book

This book reads the surprisingly widespread representations of cannibals and cannibalism in medieval English literature as political metaphors that were central to England's on-going process of articulating cultural and national identity.

Keywords

  • colonial studies
  • Early Modern Literature
  • England
  • English
  • English literature
  • genre
  • identity
  • literature
  • manuscript
  • Medieval English
  • Medieval Literature
  • metaphor
  • methodology
  • Middle Ages
  • nationalism

Reviews

'...she [Blurton] assembles much new material, making us look at her subject again. Her book will thus be first port of call for researchers on anthropophagy.' - Andrew Breeze, Modern Language Review

About the author

HEATHER BLURTON is a lecturer in the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Department of English at the University of York, UK.

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