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McCracken-Flesher Caroline |
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Titolo |
The doctor dissected : a cultural autopsy of the Burke and Hare murders / / Caroline McCracken-Flesher |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2012 |
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0-19-020859-7 |
0-19-025285-5 |
1-283-42797-4 |
9786613427977 |
0-19-991031-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (287 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature and history - Scotland |
Crime in popular culture - Scotland |
English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism |
Murder in mass media - Scotland |
National characteristics, Scottish, in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Medicine, Murder, and Scottish Story: Doctor Knox and Burke and Hare; 2. The Story Begins: The Law versus the Press, and the Doctor versus Walter Scott; 3. Enlightened System versus Religious Sympathy: The Sensational Tales of Alexander Leighton and David Pae; 4. Dissecting the Doctor: Mr. Jekyll, Dr. Hyde, and Robert Knox; 5. Anatomizing the Audience: James Bridie , Melodrama, and the Movies; 6. Bringing Out the Dead: Silent Victims Speak in Alasdair Gray 's Poor Things |
7. Resting in Pieces? Present Comforts or Restless Futures in Ian Rankin 's ScotlandNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
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A series of bizarre disappearances filled the citizens of early nineteenth-century Scotland with terror. When the perpetrators were finally apprehended in 1828, their motive roiled the nation: William |
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Burke and William Hare had murdered for profit. The cadavers supplied a ready payout, courtesy of Dr. Robert Knox, who was desperate for anatomical subjects. Nearly two hundred years later, these scandalous murders continue to fire imagination in Scotland and beyond. From the start, the sensational events provoked artists and writers. While Sir Walter Scott resisted public comment, his correspond |
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