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Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,537
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Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England (Hardcover): Miranda Wilson

Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England (Hardcover)

Miranda Wilson

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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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Imprint: Bucknell University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 2013
First published: December 2013
Authors: Miranda Wilson
Dimensions: 234 x 162 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 978-1-61148-538-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
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LSN: 1-61148-538-X
Barcode: 9781611485387

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