We're one step closer to the Cannibalism in Victorian Hookers trilogy (Ok I'll shut up now and actually deeply appreciate this interesting video)

Heyy, I just marathoned all the videos on your channel and I'm loving it. I'm Brazilian, kisses!

going through all your vlogs to find motivation for my final push of my dissertation

YES! please make more videos like this! theyre so needed, its like a public lecture!

As someone who is preparing to apply to a phd program in the humanities and social sciences, this was super helpful. Thank you for being so thorough and sharing your journey

Well this is actually a good video

Thank you so much for taking the time to share your experience and work. You inspire me so much!!

amazing vid! i'm brazilian and the cannibalism - sex parallel made me think about how in Brazil sometimes when a man wants to call a woman "hot", "sexy" (or just say she has a nice body) they say she is "filé" which translates to "steak", "fillet", literally a piece of meat

You should check out Richard the Lionhearted (c. 1400s)! Richard I is an unabashed cannibal in it, and the son of a demon.

so, so, soooooo jealous omg!

i literally just met you and omg, i wanna be you you're an amazing person i hope i can be as good as you someday... love from Brazil :)

Thank you for this brief overview. I will use the info to ponder Catholicism / the act of eating the body of Christ .

Really enjoyed the video, thank you for this. The theme of cannibalism reminds me of Freud (clumsily) connecting all violence in modern society to the antropophagy of the vanquished, as the former's sort of retrogressive echo of the latter. At the same time in some of the works you talk about there's the other real face of cannibalism, ritual funerary antropophagy, the consummation of the loved ones' bodies, the influence of which is not merely relegated to the paleolithic but was practiced by some Indo-European peoples(thus clearly it's not an exclusive feature of non European 'primitive societies') well into recorded history.

finally. a video for me. haven't even watched it yet but I'm locked in.

I hope you consider doing more of these lecture like videos! This was incredible

i love you

One of brazilian literature's greatest Epic poem is about cannibalism. Actually, anthropophagy. It's called I-Juca-Pirama (it's tupi for The one that must die). It tells the story about a warrior that has to sing his war glories before he is killed and ritually eaten. It's a great exploration on the desire to become the one you admire, even if they are your enemies.

watched this getting ready for bed and i can't wait to have the most gutwrenching dream of my life

This is an incredible brief yet thorough and engaging video on cannibalism in early modern English drama. I legitimately took notes and plan to delve into this topic further. You presented such a variety of lens to view cannibalism through I am now going to think about every piece of media involving cannibalism (mainly Bones and all) through each different perspective and relish in my discoveries. Pls make more videos like this with other themes - obsessed with this brief overview format!

I was named after the Brontë sisters! And I still have only read wuthering heights. This makes me want to finally start Jane eyre <3

odd question but I have a semi-eidetic verbal memory and i think i maybe recognize your username, so this is random if im wrong but did you make a tiktok a couple years back about h jon Benjamin’s jazz piano album? I think that’s where I’m remembering it…

i felt as though my body was levitating this entire video. excellent references and analyses.

What are your thoughts on the movie Bones And All?

this video is perfect for my brain, thank you

I'm Brazilian and when you're quoted the native Brazilians' text it was so touching for me cause, even tho we know that it's against law and isn't part of our society anymore, we have a different view of it, and we relate the cannibalism with 2 point of view, the first being eating as part of dominate, since, till nowadays, there are indigenous groups that eat the head of the group that lost a battle with them, and the second as grief and connection. Because of the Europeans, a lot of indigenous groups died and the ones who survived used to eat parts of the body of the dead to absorve all the pain and give a part to the Earth so the soil can absorb it and eat it too and the vitmn would became part of the land. It's really touching and I grew up with natives, so it was really importante to me that people understand the metaphor behind all of it😊❤

thanking the algorithm gods for putting you on my front page, target audience reached

Why did I not see this video when I was in Complete Shakespeare Abridged Revised Again?! (The script parodies Titus as a cooking show, we gave it a GBBO spin)

god bless you because this was beautiful

binge watching you because of ur recent video 🤭

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

this is a fantastic run through of this topic and genuinely resparked my passion for literature so much that it made me want to resume my paused degree in it 😭

This is so interesting! I’m a first year PhD student and my ears perked up when I heard you talk about the racialization of cannibalism and the creation of the “other.” I work primarily with black diasporic studies and I’m interested in looking at the definition of monsters at the beginning of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Spectacular video!

Loved this, will be heading down a rabbit hole on “‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore” for any Commedia dell’Art connections, but! Some of the things you touch on here made me think of the relatively common trope-borne out of certain historical periods-in Chinese literature and drama of volunteering oneself for cannibalism as an ultimate filially pious sacrifice. Always cool to find these parallels paths in drama.

Inb4 Harold Bloom on Moby Dick

really enjoyed eating my wingstop whilst watching this icl

It also seems interesting that cannibalism in these plays is such a public thing despite it being such a private and intense act. I feel like that could very well play into the idea of shame and not only shaming it as a horrific thing to do but the shame that comes of both that kind of othering and being othered.