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Medicinal cannibalism in early modern English literature and culture / Louise Noble.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR428.C24 N63 2011
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Van Pelt Library PR428.C24 N63 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Noble, Louise Christine.
- Series:
- Early modern cultural studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Cannibalism in literature.
- Medicine in literature.
- Human body in literature.
- Cannibalism--Great Britain--History.
- Cannibalism.
- Medicine--Great Britain--History--16th century.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Literature and medicine--Great Britain--History--16th century.
- Literature and medicine.
- Literature and medicine--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Contents:
- Introduction: 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
- Epilogue. Trafficking the human body: late modern cannibalism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230110274
- 0230110274
- OCLC:
- 664114854
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