Murdering to dissect : grave-robbing, Frankenstein and the anatomy literature
This work reads "Frankenstein" and a range of affiliated literature of the early-19th century alongside accounts of medical, legal and political/social history, providing a fictional commentary on the changing and troubled status of the medical profession.
Print Book, English, ©1995
Manchester University Press ; Distributed in USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, Manchester, New York, ©1995
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 354 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780719045424, 9780719045431, 0719045428, 0719045436
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Introduction: murdering to dissect. The Edinburgh scandal 1828-29. Galvanism. Utopia and reality. Frankenstein and the 1832 Anatomy Act
pt. I. Frankenstein: the 1832 context. 1. The dead body business. Bentham's auto-icon. Richardson's argument in Death, Dissection and the Destitute. Sir Walter Scott in Edinburgh, 1829. The surgeon as murderer: On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts. The contented executioner in Barnaby Rudge. 2. Multi-accentuation in On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts and Frankenstein. Social signs. The Note of the Editor in On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts. The politics of anatomy: the voices in Frankenstein, 1831
pt. II. The law made flesh. 3. The instruments of law. Intextuation. Public and comparative anatomy. Trading. The surgeon as artist: John Hunter and Mrs Martin Van Butchell. Aesthetics and murder. 4. The death command, anatomy and the law, 1750-1850. The gibbet. Frankenstein: the arche-command. Claiming