Noble, Louise Christine. Medicinal cannibalism in early modern English literature and culture

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Creator

Noble, Louise Christine

Date

2011

Location

New York, New York (State)
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

Notes

Edition

1st ed

General notes

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

Also known as

Extended title: Medicinal cannibalism in early modern English literature and culture / Louise Noble

Subjects

English literature Cannibalism in literature Medicine in literature Human body in literature Cannibalism Medicine Literature and medicine

Related names

author: Noble, Louise Christine