Poison and Poisoning in Science, Fiction and Cinema

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Female Poisoners in Eighteenth-Century Germany

Chapter 3 The Truth About the Lafarge Affair: Poisons in Salons, Academies, and Courtrooms During the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 4 “Nature Is Lopsided”: Muscarine as Scientific and Literary Fascinosum in Dorothy L. Sayers’ The Documents in the Case

Chapter 5 “Everything Stays Down Where It’s Wounded”: Precarious Ontologies and Ecologies of Poison

Chapter 6 “Life and Death Appeared to Me Ideal Bounds”: Investigations into Life, Death, Resuscitation, and “Vegetable Poisons” in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain

Chapter 7 “These Pale Alchemies”: Lucretia Borgia in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Chapter 8 Magic Matters: On Sexed Bodies and Early Film

Chapter 9 Fun and Games: The Joy of Poisoning in Children’s Literature

Chapter 10 Nuclear Power Subjects: Superheroes and Energetic Film

Chapter 11 From Substance to Phantasm: Poison Motifs in Narrative Cinema

Chapter 12 Cinema and the Motif of Poison as Intermingling

Chapter 13 Serial Poisoning: Actualizations of the “Yellow Peril” in 1960s Fu Manchu Films

Chapter 14 Cinema as Ontoxicological Mit-Gift and Being-With as a Given in Societies of Enforced Precarity

Chapter 15 Autoimmunity and Sexual Difference in Todd Haynes’ Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Poison, and Safe

Chapter 16 Identity, Precariousness, and Poison: A Brief and Political Outlook