Medicinal cannibalism in early modern English literature and culture
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Medicinal cannibalism in early modern English literature and culture
(Early modern cultural studies)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-222) and index
"Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2011 978-0-230-11027-4"--T.p.verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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 Vierge as Pharmakon: Othello and the Anniversaries Trafficking the Human Body: Late Modern Medical Cannibalism
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