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Medicinal cannibalism in early modern English literature and culture

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.
Print Book, English, 2011
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2011
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
9780230110274, 9781349292677, 0230110274, 1349292672
664114854
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