And Make Two Pasties of Your Shameful Heads
Medicinal Cannibalism and Healing the Body Politic in Titus Andronicus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8076572 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Louise Noble (0000-0002-7094-6833, corresponding author), Louise Christine Noble |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 677-708 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ELH (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8304 • E-ISSN: 1080-6547 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/elh.2003.0029 |
| OpenAlex | W2012899658 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Early modern European corpse pharmacology, the medical ingestion of human body parts and excretions, involves a gruesome process of bodily violations made possible by a brutal judicial system. This essay argues that the figurative language of medicine in Titus Andronicus, where human bodies are savagely deployed and eaten as powerful pollutants in an escalating therapeutics of revenge justice, interrogates the cultural paradox evident when cannibalism is considered as both barbaric and taboo, and civilized and beneficial, depending on the circumstances
Aesthetics · Art · Biology · Body politic · Cannibalism · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Human body · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Taboo · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Psychedelics and Drug Studies · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy · Anatomy · Ecology · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2006 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |