Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture examines an important moment in the long history of the medical use and abuse of the human body. In early modern Protestant England, the fragmented corpse was processed, circulated, and ingested as a valuable drug in a medical economy underpinned by a brutal judicial system. In a meticulous engagement with an extensive range of medical, religious, and literary texts, Louise Noble shows how early modern writers became obsessed with medicinal cannibalism and its uncanny link to the contested Eucharist sacrament. In the process, Noble points out startling continuities between early modern and contemporary medical consumptions of the body.

Author: L. Noble
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/24/2011
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230110274

About the Author
LOUISE NOBLE lecturer in the English Department of the School of Arts at the University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA.