Medicinal cannibalism in early modern English literature and culture / Louise Noble.

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Introduction: the pharmacological corpse: the practice and rhetoric of bodily consumptions -- The mummy cure: fresh unspotted cadavers -- Medicine, cannibalism and revenge justice: Titus Andronicus -- Flesh economies in foreign worlds: The unfortunate traveller and the sea voyage -- Divine matter and the cannibal dilemma: the Faerie queene and devotions upon emergent occasions -- The fille vièrge as pharmakon: Othello and the anniversaries -- Epilogue. Trafficking the human body: late modern cannibalism.

Includes bibliographical references and index.