Medicinal cannibalism in early modern English literature and culture/
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| Language: | English |
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New York:
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011
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| Series: | Early modern cultural studies
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Table of 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 vierge as pharmakon: Othello and the anniversaries
- Epilogue. Trafficking the human body: late modern cannibalism.