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Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England

Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 161148538X
ISBN13: 9781611485387
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: Dec 24 2013
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.

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