Murdering to Dissect: Grave-robbing, Frankenstein and the Anatomy LiteratureManchester University Press, 1995 - 354 Seiten When Frankenstein appeared in 1818 it was well known that the medical profession lent silent support to the grave-robbing gangs who regulary sold the surgeons newly-buried bodies for dissection. This resurection trade led to the sensational Burke and Hare case, which revealed that the bodies of murder victims had been pased to the Edinburgh surgeon Dr Robert Knox with his connivance. |
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... poem " The Old Familiar Faces ' ( 1798 ) , which begins ' Where are they gone , the old familiar faces ? ' The question recalls Scott's uneasy thought of the relation or friend lying on the anatomy table . It comments , that is , upon ...
... poem " The Old Familiar Faces ' ( 1798 ) , which begins ' Where are they gone , the old familiar faces ? ' The question recalls Scott's uneasy thought of the relation or friend lying on the anatomy table . It comments , that is , upon ...
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... poem The Village captures a moment of dawning , traumatic disillusionment with paternalistic authority . It surveys the poor as they assemble in a graveyard to bury one of their own . Crabbe's description of the priest's omission of ...
... poem The Village captures a moment of dawning , traumatic disillusionment with paternalistic authority . It surveys the poor as they assemble in a graveyard to bury one of their own . Crabbe's description of the priest's omission of ...
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... poem ' The Surgeon's Warning ' continued to be pertinent in the early decades of the nineteenth century . It anticipates calls which were to surface in the 1820s for the surgeons to be made to will their own bodies for dissection ...
... poem ' The Surgeon's Warning ' continued to be pertinent in the early decades of the nineteenth century . It anticipates calls which were to surface in the 1820s for the surgeons to be made to will their own bodies for dissection ...
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The dead body business | 19 |
The contented executioner in Barnaby Rudge | 38 |
Multiaccentuation in On Murder considered as one | 44 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Murdering to Dissect: Grave-robbing, Frankenstein and the Anatomy Literature Tim Marshall Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1995 |
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