Examines the strange foundations of nonhuman thought through new
readings of nineteenth-century British literatureHow does
nineteenth-century literature concerned with creatures, animals, and
humans who are not permitted to be properly human also produce such
gruesome, strange, abject citizens alongside techno-urban systems like
the meat industry, the popular serial press, and even in rights
movements? Through formal 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.