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.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
9780230110274, 9781349292677, 0230110274, 1349292672
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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