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Creator
Date
2011
Location
New York,
New York (State)
United States
United States
Media format
Printed text
Extent
xii, 241 p.
Language
English
Size
22 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 245700
Folger call number: PR428.C24 N63 2011
Folger holdings ID: 312464
Folger call number: PR428.C24 N63 2011
Folger holdings ID: 312464
Notes
Edition
1st ed
General notes
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Also known as
Extended title: Medicinal cannibalism in early modern English literature and culture / Louise Noble
Subjects
Related names
author: Noble, Louise Christine