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Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England (Hardcover)
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Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England (Hardcover)
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Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England considers the ways
sixteenth- and seventeenth-century fears of poisoning prompt new
models for understanding the world even as the fictive qualities of
poisoning frustrate attempts at certainty. Whether English writers
invoke literal poisons, as they do in so many revenge dramas,
homicide cases, and medical documents, or whether poisoning appears
more metaphorically, as it does in a host of theological, legal,
philosophical, popular, and literary works, this particular,
"invisible" weapon easily comes to embody the darkest elements of a
more general English appetite for imagining the hidden correlations
between the seen and the unseen. This book is an inherently
interdisciplinary project. This book works from the premise that
accounts of poisons and their operations in Renaissance texts are
neither incidental nor purely sensational; rather, they do moral,
political, and religious work which can best be assessed when we
consider poisoning as part of the texture of Renaissance culture.
Placing little known or less-studied texts (medical reports, legal
accounts, or anonymous pamphlets) alongside those most familiar to
scholars and the larger public (such as poetry by Edmund Spenser
and plays by William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton) allows us to
appreciate the almost gravitational pull exerted by the notion of
poison in the Renaissance. Considering a variety of texts, written
for disparate audiences, and with diverse purposes, makes apparent
the ways this crime functions as both a local problem to be solved
and as an apt metaphor for the complications of epistemology.
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