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The doctor dissected : a cultural autopsy of the Burke and Hare murders / / Caroline McCracken-Flesher



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Autore: McCracken-Flesher Caroline Visualizza persona
Titolo: The doctor dissected : a cultural autopsy of the Burke and Hare murders / / Caroline McCracken-Flesher Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/3556
Soggetto topico: 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
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 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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ISBN: 0-19-020859-7
0-19-025285-5
1-283-42797-4
9786613427977
0-19-991031-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820169203321
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