Viewing the Enlightenment of Civilization through Cannibalism in Early Eighteenth-Century British Literature

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10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_362How to use a DOI?

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Cannibalism; civilization; British literature

Abstract

Cannibalism is a taboo for humans in both cultural and medicinal history of Western civilizations. The rapidly growing British Empire developed various strategies to deal with the stigma of cannibalism and moral guilt within. In the early eighteenth century, cannibalistic events were present in the works of British writers such as Defoe, Chetwood, Aubin, and Swift, reflecting the post-Enlightenment England’s struggle between barbarism and civilization.

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AU  - Yiyao Sun
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TI  - Viewing the Enlightenment of Civilization through Cannibalism in Early Eighteenth-Century British Literature
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)
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