Richard Sugg is lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of Durham. His previous publications include: John Donne (Palgrave, 2007), Murder After Death (Cornell, 2007), The Smoke of the Soul (Palgrave, 2013), and The Secret History of the Soul (Cambridge Scholars, 2013). He has just completed his sixth book, The Real Vampires.
Introduction Chapter One: The Middle Ages to the Civil War Chapter Two: The
Civil War to the Eighteenth Century Chapter Three: The Bloody Harvest:
Sources of Human Body Parts Chapter Four: The Other Cannibals: Man-eaters
of the New World Chapter Five: Dirty History, Filthy Medicine Chapter Six:
Eating the Soul Chapter Seven: Opposition and Ambivalence: pre-Eighteenth
Century Chapter Eight: The Eighteenth Century Conclusion: Afterlives
