Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine and Anatomy The Victorian Penny Blood and the 1832 Anatomy Act /

• Main Author: Gasperini, Anna (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-19th century.; Gothic fiction (Literary genre).; Medicine-History.; Bioethics.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Gothic Fiction.; History of Medicine.

'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 sour...

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.