Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse

by Sarah Tarlow and Emma Battell Lowman

Book Overview

This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture. Starting with a consideration of the criminal corpse...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1013273761
• ISBN13: 9781013273766
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"