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Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England explores the ways English writings about poisoning prompted new ways of thinking about the world. 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.
English literature --- Thematology --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Poisons in literature. --- Poisoning in literature. --- Murder in literature. --- History and criticism.
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Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England explores the ways English writings about poisoning prompted new ways of thinking about the world. 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.
English literature --- Poisons in literature. --- Poisoning in literature. --- Murder in literature. --- History and criticism.
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