Murder after Death : : Literature and Anatomy in Early Modern England /

Murder after Death : : Literature and Anatomy in Early Modern England / / Richard Sugg.

Just as museum exhibits of plastinated corpses, television dramas about forensics, and books about the eventual fate of human remains provoke interest and generate ethical debates today, anatomy was a topic of fascination-and autopsies a spectator pastime-in England from the mid-Elizabethan era thro...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Sugg, Richard,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2007
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 1 table, 13 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Invading Body
  • 1. Between the Skin and the Bone: Anatomy, Violence, and Transition
  • 2. "I'll eat the rest of th'anatomy": Dissection and Cannibalism
  • 3. The Body as Proof
  • 4. The Split Body
  • 5. Vivisection, Violence, and Identity
  • Conclusion: The Anatomy of the Soul
  • Appendix 1. English Literary Anatomies to 1650
  • Appendix 2. Anatomy Allusions in Dated London Sermons to 1642
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index

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