Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England

By Miranda Wilson

Book Overview

Poison's Dark Works explores the ways English writings about poisoning prompted new ways of thinking. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611488176
• ISBN13: 9781611488173
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"