03507nam 2200685Ia 450 991077882530332120230802004436.00-19-025285-51-283-42797-497866134279770-19-991031-6(CKB)2550000000079980(EBL)845974(OCoLC)773827804(SSID)ssj0000589840(PQKBManifestationID)12205635(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000589840(PQKBWorkID)10657377(PQKB)10423323(StDuBDS)EDZ0001021738(MiAaPQ)EBC845974(Au-PeEL)EBL845974(CaPaEBR)ebr10524886(CaONFJC)MIL342797(EXLCZ)99255000000007998020111003d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe doctor dissected[electronic resource] a cultural autopsy of the Burke and Hare murders /Caroline McCracken-FlesherOxford ;New York Oxford University Pressc20121 online resource (287 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-976682-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Things7. 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; YA 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 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 correspondLiterature and historyScotlandCrime in popular cultureScotlandEnglish literatureScottish authorsHistory and criticismMurder in mass mediaScotlandNational characteristics, Scottish, in literatureEdinburgh (Scotland)Literature and historyCrime in popular cultureEnglish literatureScottish authorsHistory and criticism.Murder in mass mediaNational characteristics, Scottish, in literature.820.9/3556McCracken-Flesher Caroline1470942MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778825303321The doctor dissected3683027UNINA