‘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
‘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.
Product details
- Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
- Hardcover: 253 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2019 edition (January 19, 2019)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 3030109151
- ISBN-13: 978-۳۰۳۰۱۰۹۱۵۸
- Product Dimensions: 5.۵ x 1 x 8.5 inches
- # Nineteenth Century Popular
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