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The Doctor Dissected - A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders (Hardcover, New)
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The Doctor Dissected - A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders (Hardcover, New)
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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 correspondence gives his trenchant private
opinion and shows him working busily behind the scenes and against
the doctor. Many more mined the news outright. Serial novelist
David Pae exploited the disturbance to lobby for religious belief
in an increasingly secular world. A subsequent generation
resurrected the grisly drama as fodder for the Victorian gothic-the
murders figure prominently in Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Body
Snatcher" and, more obliquely, in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde. The twentieth century saw the specters of Burke and Hare
emerge in James Bridie's play The Anatomist Hollywood horror films,
television programs like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and
Frankensteinian retellings from Alasdair Gray. In this century, the
story has been picked up by Smallville and Doctor Who. Recent
allusions and reenactments range from the somber-in popular
detective fiction by Ian Rankin-to the dark, camp comedy of Fringe
Festival performances and the slapstick of John Landis's Burke and
Hare. Featuring over thirty images and canvassing a wide range of
media - from contemporary newspaper accounts and private
correspondence to Japanese comic books and videogames - The Doctor
Dissected analyzes the afterlife of this national trauma and
considers its singular place in Scottish history.
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