Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture [electronic resource] /
Noble, L.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Literature, Medieval.
Literature, Modern.
History.
British literature.
Intellectual life—History.
Medicine—History.
Medieval Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
History of Science.
British and Irish Literature.
Intellectual Studies.
History of Medicine.