Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

✍ Scribed by Louise Noble (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 249
Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-16
The Mummy Cure: Fresh Unspotted Cadavers....Pages 17-34
Medicine, Cannibalism, and Revenge Justice: Titus Andronicus....Pages 35-57
Flesh Economies in Foreign Worlds: The Unfortunate Traveller and The Sea Voyage....Pages 59-88
Divine Matter and the Cannibal Dilemma: The Faerie Queene and Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions ....Pages 89-126
The Fille Vièrge as Pharmakon: Othello and the Anniversaries....Pages 127-159
Epilogue: Trafficking the Human Body: Late Modern Cannibalism....Pages 161-164
Back Matter....Pages 165-241

✦ Subjects

Medieval Literature; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature; History of Science; British and Irish Literature; Intellectual Studies; History of Medicine

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