Poison's Dark Works explores the ways English writings about poisoning prompted new ways of thinking. Placing medical, legal, technical, and scientific texts in conversation with literary ones, this work argues that as crime of the imagination, poisoning serves as a powerful metaphor for the dangers, pleasures, and possibilities of innovation.
Poison's Dark Works explores the ways English writings about poisoning prompted new ways of thinking. Placing medical, legal, technical, and scientific texts in conversation with literary ones, this work argues that as crime of the imagination, poisoning serves as a powerful metaphor for the dangers, pleasures, and possibilities of innovation.
Miranda Wilson is assistant professor of English at the University of Delaware.
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Contents List of Illustrations ... iv Acknowledgments ... v Abbreviations ... vi Editoral Notes ... vii Introduction: Discovering Poison ... 1 One Visible Proofs and Works of Darkness: Poison and the Desire for Certainty ... 67 Two Speaking for the Corpse: Physicians, Autopsies, and the Unknowing Dead... 141 Three Narratives of History and the Virtues of Poison ... 221 Four Watching Flesh: Poison and the Fantasy of Temporal Control ... 279 Epilogue ... 330 Bibliography ... 335 About the Author ... 376 Index ... 377
Contents List of Illustrations ... iv Acknowledgments ... v Abbreviations ... vi Editoral Notes ... vii Introduction: Discovering Poison ... 1 One Visible Proofs and Works of Darkness: Poison and the Desire for Certainty ... 67 Two Speaking for the Corpse: Physicians, Autopsies, and the Unknowing Dead... 141 Three Narratives of History and the Virtues of Poison ... 221 Four Watching Flesh: Poison and the Fantasy of Temporal Control ... 279 Epilogue ... 330 Bibliography ... 335 About the Author ... 376 Index ... 377
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