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024 7 _a10.7591/9781501729973
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501729973
035 _a(DE-B1597)515588
035 _a(OCoLC)1076725298
040 _aDE-B1597
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSugg, Richard
_eautore
245 1 0 _aMurder after Death :
_bLiterature and Anatomy in Early Modern England /
_cRichard Sugg.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2007
300 _a1 online resource (280 p.) :
_b1 table, 13 halftones
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: The Invading Body --
_t1. Between the Skin and the Bone: Anatomy, Violence, and Transition --
_t2. "I'll eat the rest of th'anatomy": Dissection and Cannibalism --
_t3. The Body as Proof --
_t4. The Split Body --
_t5. Vivisection, Violence, and Identity --
_tConclusion: The Anatomy of the Soul --
_tAppendix 1. English Literary Anatomies to 1650 --
_tAppendix 2. Anatomy Allusions in Dated London Sermons to 1642 --
_tList of Abbreviations --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aJust as museum exhibits of plastinated corpses, television dramas about forensics, and books about the eventual fate of human remains provoke interest and generate ethical debates today, anatomy was a topic of fascination-and autopsies a spectator pastime-in England from the mid-Elizabethan era through the outbreak of civil war. Rather than regard such preoccupations as purely macabre, Richard Sugg sees them as precursors of a profoundly new scientific and cultural discourse.Tracing the influence of continental anatomy on English literature across the period, Sugg begins his exploration with the essentially sacralizing aspects of dissection—as expressed, for instance, in the search for the anatomical repository of the soul—before detailing ways in which science and religion diverged from and eventually opposed each other. In charting this transition, Sugg draws his evidence from the fine detail of literary language, moving from sermons to plays, medical textbooks to sonnets, and from sensational short tales to Thomas Nashe's proto-novel The Unfortunate Traveller.As Sugg shows, the study of anatomy first offered to positively revitalize many areas of religious rhetoric. In time, however, the rising forces of early scientific enquiry transformed the body into an increasingly alien and secular entity. Within this evolution the author finds a remarkably rich, subtle, and unstable set of attitudes, with different forms of violence, different versions of the interior body, and implicit social, religious, and psychological stances variously cooperating or competing for supremacy.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aEnglish literature
_yEarly modern, 1500-1700
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aHuman anatomy in literature.
650 0 _aHuman dissection in literature.
650 0 _aLiterary anatomies.
650 4 _aHistory Of Science.
650 4 _aLiterary Studies.
650 4 _aMedicine & Medical Issues.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501729973
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