Caroline McCracken-Flesher

Gebundenes Buch

Doctor Dissected

A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders

Beschreibung

Vividly illustrated, The Doctor Dissected examines the sensational serial killings - known as the Anatomy Murders - that roiled Scotland in the early nineteenth century and considers their checkered afterlife in novels, plays, and films.

Autor

Caroline McCracken-Flesher is Professor of English at the University of Wyoming. She is the author of Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (Oxford University Press, 2005) and the editor of Culture, Nation, and the New Scottish Parliament (Bucknell UP, 2007).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP US
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9780199766826
• ISBN-10: 0199766827
• Artikelnr.: 33606105