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Author:

Noble, Louise Christine.

Title:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xii, 241 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Cannibalism in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Human body in literature.
Cannibalism--Great Britain--History.
Medicine--Great Britain--History--16th century.
Medicine--Great Britain--History--17th century.
Literature and medicine--Great Britain--History--16th century.
Literature and medicine--Great Britain--History--17th century.

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 -- Trafficking the human body : late modern cannibalism.

Series:

Early modern cultural studies

ISBN:

0230110274
9780230110274

OCLC:

(OCoLC)664114854

LCCN:

2010035420

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PYAX423 -- ECC - Osgood Library (Iowa Falls)