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Tracing the influence of continental anatomy on English literature across the period, Sugg begins his exploration with the essentially sacralising aspects of dissection before detailing ways in which science and religion diverged from and eventually opposed each other.
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2 editions- Hardcover · English · 2007Cornell University Press · 259 pages · 9780801445095
- Other · English · 2018Cornell University Press · 280 pages · 9781501729973
Literary anatomiesEnglish literatureHuman dissection in literatureHuman anatomy in literatureHistory and criticismHistory, 17th CenturyHistory, 16th CenturyDissection