Murder After Death
Subtitle: Literature and Anatomy in Early Modern England
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: April 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780801445095
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; History; Renaissance; Early modern, 1500-1700; English literature; History and criticism; Human anatomy in literature; Human dissection in literature
Description: Tracing the influence of continental anatomy on English literature across the period, Sugg begins his exploration with the essentially sacralising aspects of dissection before detailing ways in which science and religion diverged from and eventually opposed each other.