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.
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.
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).
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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 Leigton 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 Scotland Notes Bibliography Index
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 Leigton 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 Scotland Notes Bibliography Index
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