Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Identity 1
6. Food for Thought: Achilles and the Cyclops 11
7. Cannibalism in Edmund Spenser’s Faerue Queebe, Ireland, and the Americas 35
8. Robinson Crusoe Inc(orporates): Domestic Economy, Incest, and the Trope of Cannibalism 57
9. Devouring the Disinherited: Familial Cannibalism in Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer 79
10. Are You Being Served? Cannibalism, Class, and Victorian Melodrama 107
11. From Caliban to Cronus: A Critique of Cannibalism as Metaphor for Cuban Revolutionary Culture 129
12. Cannibals at the Core: Juicy Rumors and the Hollow Earth Chronotope in Ian Wedde’s Symmes Hole 149
13. Margaret Atwood’s Wilderness Tips: Apocalyptic Cannibal Fiction 167
14. The Missed Encounter: Cannibalism and the Literary Critic 187
15. Contributors 205
16. Index 207