Poison Damsels
Title | Poison Damsels PDF eBook |
Author | N.M. Penzer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2016-05-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317847520 |
First published in 2004. These four classic masterpieces in esoteric research by the noted orientalist - M. Penzer explore customs and traditions from other cultures and periods of history which, for all their apparent strangeness, mask fundamental subjects of continuing interest. The first concerns the motif of the poison damsel -- the beauty who dealt death in many forms to her admirers - which originated in India, was prevalent in medieval Europe, and persists today in the belief of the femme fatale. The volume includes a study in the ancient Tate of the Two Thieves, an essay on sacred prostitution in India, the ancient East and West Africa, and an exhaustive treatment of the custom of chewing the betel or areca nut which is widespread in the far East from India through Indonesia to New Guinea. A natural stimulant and narcotic whose effects are similar to that of tobacco, betel is of growing interest to the medical world, and has, as the author shows here, a rich legacy of customs and belief.
Poison-damsels
Title | Poison-damsels PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Mosley Penzer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 1952 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Poison Damsels
Title | Poison Damsels PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Mosley Penzer |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Anthropology |
ISBN | 9781315828657 |
Poison Damsels
Title | Poison Damsels PDF eBook |
Author | Penzer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2016-03-31 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781138978614 |
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Poison-damsels
Title | Poison-damsels PDF eBook |
Author | Norman M. Penzer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Poison on the early modern English stage
Title | Poison on the early modern English stage PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Hopkins |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2023-08-29 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1526159910 |
Many early modern plays use poison, most famously Hamlet, where the murder of Old Hamlet showcases the range of issues poison mobilises. Its orchard setting is one of a number of sinister uses of plants which comment on both the loss of horticultural knowledge resulting from the Dissolution of the Monasteries and also the many new arrivals in English gardens through travel, trade, and attempts at colonisation. The fact that Old Hamlet was asleep reflects unease about soporifics troubling the distinction between sleep and death; pouring poison into the ear smuggles in the contemporary fear of informers; and it is difficult to prove. This book explores poisoning in early modern plays, the legal and epistemological issues it raises, and the cultural work it performs, which includes questions related to race, religion, nationality, gender, and humans’ relationship to the environment.
Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Title | Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Sara L. Crosby |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2018-09-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3319964631 |
This book investigates how popular American literature and film transformed the poisonous woman from a misogynist figure used to exclude women and minorities from political power into a feminist hero used to justify the expansion of their public roles. Sara Crosby locates the origins of this metamorphosis in Uncle Tom’s Cabin where Harriet Beecher Stowe applied an alternative medical discourse to revise the poisonous Cassy into a doctor. The newly “medicalized” poisoner then served as a focal point for two competing narratives that envisioned the American nation as a multi-racial, egalitarian democracy or as a white and male supremacist ethno-state. Crosby tracks this battle from the heroic healers created by Stowe, Mary Webb, Oscar Micheaux, and Louisia May Alcott to the even more monstrous poisoners or “vampires” imagined by E. D. E. N. Southworth, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Theda Bara, Thomas Dixon, Jr., and D. W. Griffith.