Murder After Death: Literature and Anatomy in Early Modern England

by Richard Sugg

Just 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801445094
• ISBN13: 9780801445095
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher