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.
Ämnesord
Kannibalism i litteraturen (sao)
Medicin i litteraturen (sao)
Människokroppen i litteraturen (sao)
Engelsk litteratur -- historia (sao)
Medicin -- historia (sao)
Cannibalism in literature (LCSH)
Medicine in literature (LCSH)
Human body in literature (LCSH)
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism (LCSH)
Cannibalism -- Great Britain -- History (LCSH)
Medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century (LCSH)
Medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century (LCSH)
Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century (LCSH)
Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century (LCSH)