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

'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...

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Main Author:	Gasperini, Anna (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	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. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book