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

Folger bibliographic ID: 245700
Folger call number: PR428.C24 N63 2011
Folger holdings ID: 312464

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

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

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

author: Noble, Louise Christine