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Author Sugg, Richard, 1969-

Title Murder after death : literature and anatomy in early modern England / Richard Sugg
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 259 pages) : illustrations
Contents Between the skin and the bone : anatomy, violence, and transition -- "I'll eat the rest of th'anatomy" : dissection and cannibalism -- The body as proof -- The split body -- Vivisection, violence, and identity
Summary Tracing the influence of continental anatomy on English literature across the period, Sugg begins his exploration with the essentially sacralising aspects of dissection before detailing ways in which science and religion diverged from and eventually opposed each other
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-249) and index
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Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Human dissection in literature.
Human anatomy in literature.
Literary anatomies.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature -- Early modern
Human anatomy in literature
Human dissection in literature
Literary anatomies
Anatomie
Englisch
Literatur
Människokroppen i litteraturen.
Engelsk litteratur -- historia -- 1500-talet -- 1600-talet.
SUBJECT England
Subject Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501729973
1501729977
0801445094
9780801445095