Richard Sugg

Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires

The History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians

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Produktbeschreibung

A history of corpse medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians. 2nd edition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 682g
• ISBN-13: 9781138934009
• ISBN-10: 1138934003
• Artikelnr.: 43025969

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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