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Noble, Louise Christine.

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

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New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	820.93561 N667m 2011	---	Available

Edition	1st ed.
Description	xii, 241 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Series	Early modern cultural studies
	Early modern cultural studies.
Bibliography	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 vierge as pharmakon: Othello and the anniversaries -- Epilogue. Trafficking the human body: late modern cannibalism.
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.
ISBN	9780230110274
	0230110274