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Anatomy and Dissection in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Volume II: The Trade of Anatomy book cover

1st Edition

Anatomy and Dissection in Nineteenth-Century Britain Volume II: The Trade of Anatomy

Edited By Laurence Talairach Copyright 2027
354 Pages
by Routledge

This three-volume set of primary sources on anatomy and dissection will trace the development of the practice of anatomy in Britain from the very beginning of the nineteenth-century. It brings together and contextualizes sources (both full length and abridged) related to the rise of anatomy in medical education and practice, foregrounding contemporary public debates around human dissections, the... Read more

Volume II: The Trade of Anatomy

 

Introduction – Volume II

 

Part 1: Body-Snatching

1. James Blake Bailey (ed.), The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811–12 (London: Swan Sonneschein & Co., 1896), 139–76.

2. Thomas Hood, ‘Jack Hall’ [1827], in Whims and Oddities, In Prose and Verse (London: Charles Tilt, 1836), 336–52.

3. Thomas Hood, ‘Mary’s Ghost: A Pathetic Ballad’ [1827], in Whims and Oddities, In Prose and Verse (London: Charles Tilt, 1836), 225–9.

4. [Anon.], ‘On the Pleasures of “Body-Snatching”’, The Monthly Magazine (3 April 1827): 355–65.

5. Samuel Warren, ‘Grave Doings’, in Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician, vol. 1, 4th edn. (Edinburgh: W. Blackwood & Sons; London: T. Cadell, 1835), 321–38.

6. Charles Dickens, ‘The Honest Tradesman’, A Tale of Two Cities. A Story of the French Revolution (1859).

 

Part 2: Burking

7. [Anon.], ‘Body-Snatching and Burking’, Once a Week (Feb. 27, 1864): 261–66.

8. [Anon.], ‘Old Stories Re-Told: Resurrection Men. Burke and Hare’, All the Year Round (16 March 1867): 282–8.

9. [A Modern Pythagorean], ‘The Philosophy of Burking’, Fraser’s Magazine, 5/25 (February 1832): 52–65.

10. [Anon.], ‘A Recent Confession of an Opium-Eater’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 80 (Dec. 1856): 629–36.

11. George W.M. Reynolds, ‘The Mummy’ and ‘The Body Snatchers’, The Mysteries of London (London, George Vickers, 1846), vol. 1.

12. David Pae, ‘The Murder of Mary Paterson’, Mary Paterson; Or, the Fatal Error. A Story of the Burke and Hare Murders (London: Fred. Farrah, 1866), 128–38. 

13. Robert Louis Stevenson, ‘The Body-Snatcher’ [1884], in The Story of a Lie and Other Tales (Boston: Herbery B. Turner & Co., 1904), 237–76.

Part 3: Warburton’s Anatomy Bill (1829)

14. [Anon.], ‘Supply of Anatomical Subjects’, London Magazine, 3/11 (Feb. 1829): 121–32.

15. Thomas Wakley, Editorial, The Lancet (Jan. 3, 1829): 433–8

16. Thomas Wakley, Editorial, The Lancet (Jan. 31, 1829): 562–3

17. Thomas Wakley, Editorial, The Lancet (March 14, 1829): 753–6

18. Thomas Wakley, Editorial, The Lancet (March 21, 1829): 785–9

19. Thomas Wakley, Editorial, The Lancet (March 28, 1829-: 818–21

20. Thomas Wakley, Editorial, The Lancet (May 15, 1829-: 211–14

21. Thomas Wakley, Editorial, The Lancet (May 23, 1829): 241–2 

22. [Robert Gooch], ‘A Bill for Preventing the Unlawful Disinterment of Human Bodies, and for Regulating Schools of Anatomy, 1829’, Quarterly Review, 42 (Jan–March 1830): 1–17.

 

Part 4: The Anatomy Riots

23. Albion, ‘Cholera Riots in Liverpool’, The Liverpool Mercury 1101.22 (June 8, 1832): 182.

24. George Eliot, Chapter 45, Middlemarch (1872).

25. George MacDonald, Chap. LXVII, Alec Forbes of Howden (London: Hurst and Blacklett, 1866), 299–302.

26. Thomas Wakley, ‘Destruction of a Theater of Anatomy’, The Lancet (31 Dec. 1831), pp. 479–486

 

Part 5: The 1832 Anatomy Act

27. T. E. Baker, An Appeal to the Common Sense of the People of England in Favour of Anatomy (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1832).

28. [Anon.], ‘Regulation of Anatomy’, Wesminster Review (April 1832): 482–96.

29. James C. Somerville, A Letter Addressed to the Lord Chancellor, on the Study of Anatomy (London: J. Hatchard, 1832).

30. Guthrie, G.J. Remarks on the Anatomy Bill Now before Parliament in a Letter addressed to the Right Hon. The Lord Althorp, and given to the members of either house on their personal or written applications to the publisher (London: Wm. Sams, Royal Library, 1832).

31. The Anatomy Act of 1832

 

Part 6: The Workhouse Body Trade

32. Charles Dickens, ‘A Great Day for the Doctors’, Household Words 32/2 (9 Nov. 1850): 264–8.

33. Charles Dickens, ‘Use and Abuse of the Dead’, Household Words 17 (1 April 1858): 361–5.

34. ‘Regina v. Alfred Feist’, in Henry Richard Dearsly and Thomas Bell (eds), Crown Cases Reserved for Consideration and Decides by the Judges of England, Vol. 1 (London: Sevens & Norton, 1858), 590–600.

35. Charles Dickens, ‘Mr Wegg looks after himself’, Our Mutual Friend (1865).

  

Part 7: The 1871 Anatomy Act

36. Anatomy Act of 1871.

 

Index

 

 

Biography

Laurence Talairach is professor of English at Université Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier. Her publications include Gothic Remains: Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture, 1764–1897 (2019) and Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic (2009).

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