Cannibals: the discovery and representation of the cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne

Abstract

List of Illustrations. Introduction: To Meet a Cannibal. Part I: From Dog-heads to Man-eaters: 1. Birth of the Cannibal. 2. The Cannibal a la mode. 3. The Cannibal Comes to France. 4. Brazil, Land of Cannibals. Part II: In Search of the Honourable Cannibal: 5. The First Ethnographer of the Tupinamba Indians. 6. Jean de Lery, or the Cannibal Obsession. 7. The Melancholy Cannibal. 8. The Spitting Cannibal. Part III: Cannibals by Constraint: 9. Cardano, or the Rule of Necessity. 10. Brebeuf and Robinson: The Missionary and the Colonist. 11. The Enlightenment Cannibal: from Bougainville to Voltaire. 12. Cruel Nature: De Pauw and Sade. 13. Cannibalism and Colonialism: Jules Verne. Epilogue: The Return of the Cannibal: Swift, Flaubert and the Medusa. Appendix I: The Cannibal Speaks: From Montaigne to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Appendix II: The Cannibal in Canada: Chateaubriand Reads Montaigne. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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