Noble Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-11861-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 241 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700

The human body, traded, fragmented and ingested is at the centre of Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture , which explores the connections between early modern literary representations of the eaten body and the medical consumption of corpses.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Noble, L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Pharmacological Corpse: The Practice and Rhetoric of Bodily Consumptions The Mummy Cure: Fresh Unspotted Cadavers Medicine, Cannibalism and Revenge Justice: Titus Andronicus Flesh Economies in Foreign Worlds: The Unfortunate Traveller and The Sea Voyage Divine Matter and the Cannibal Dilemma: The Faerie Queene and Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions The Fille Vièrge as Pharmakon: Othello and the Anniversaries Trafficking the Human Body: Late Modern Medical Cannibalism

Über Autor(innen)

LOUISE NOBLE lecturer in the English Department of the School of Arts at the University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA.