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  title info:
    title: Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine and Anatomy
    sub title: The Victorian Penny Blood and the 1832 Anatomy Act
  name:
    name part: Gasperini, Anna.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 253 p. 10 illus., 8 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 'The 1832 Anatomy Act was a crime against the poor. Anna Gasperini uses to it explain why corpses, monsters, demon barbers and body snatchers populated cheap fiction in the early Victorian years. This is a major inter-disciplinary study that establishes the gothic penny dreadful as a vital source for understanding popular culture in the age of Dickens and the Chartists.' - Rohan McWilliam, Professor of Modern British History, Anglia Ruskin University, UK 'Anna Gasperini's Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction, Medicine, and Anatomy is a welcome addition to scholarship on early Victorian narrative, the history of medicine, and popular culture. This deftly written, meticulously researched monograph reads like a novel and identifies a subject that we have strangely overlooked: the surge of popularity in the penny blood at a time when medical experimentation was unstandardized or - worse - adjudicated by class.' - Tabitha Sparks, Associate Professor of English, McGill University, Canada 'Dr Gasperini brilliantly resurrects from unjust neglect the penny bloods and penny dreadfuls so beloved of poor and working-class late-Georgians and Victorians. She skilfully traces the impact of the bodysnatching / burking furore and subsequent Anatomy Act on the genre. She expertly reveals the eerie and uncanny spaces of 19th-century London as providing a dominant inspiration for these proto-horror tales, and explores how the inexorable rise of the medical profession contributed a deep sense of unease for a metropolitan population who feared that their material being was vulnerable to being co-opted for the progression of science. This is a long-overdue and highly intelligent examination of the literature of the socially powerless and underprivileged - and a terrific read, to boot.' - Sarah Wise, Lecturer and author, City University London, UK This book investigates the relationship between the fascinating and misunderstood penny blood, early Victorian popular fiction for the working cla…
  table of contents: 1. Preface: Dissecting a Literary Monster -- 2. Penny Bloods, The Anatomy Act, and a Common Ground for Analysis -- 3. Manuscripts from the Diary of a Physician: Power, Ethics, and the Super-Doctor -- 4. Coping with the Displaced Corpse: Medicine, Truth, and Masculinity in Varney the Vampyre -- 5. Underground Truths: Sweeney Todd, Cannibalism, and Discourse Control -- 6. The Unknown Labyrinth: Radicalism, The Body, and the Anatomy Act in The Mysteries of London -- 7. Dissection Report: Patterns of Medicine and Ethics.
  note: by Anna Gasperini.
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-19th century
  subject:
    topic: Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
  subject:
    topic: Medicine-History
  subject:
    topic: Bioethics
  subject:
    topic: Nineteenth-Century Literature
  subject:
    topic: Gothic Fiction
  subject:
    topic: History of Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Bioethics
  classification: PN760.5-769
  classification: 809.034
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
  identifier: 9783030109165
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10916-5
  record info:
    record creation date: 190118
    record change date: 20191023112521.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-10916-5