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Without and Within: Victorian Mourning and Treatment of the Dead Main Menu Fleeing Death: Victorian Paranoia Concerning Public Health First Section Dying Well and Loved: At the Moment of Death and Mourning Second Section Wearing and Burying Death: Fashion, Mourning, and Public Displays of Death Third Section Up and Down the Stair with Burke and Hare: Body-Snatching Fourth Section Weird Science: Anatomical Use of the Dead Fifth Section Works Cited/Full-Texts/Further Readings

Dr. Knox Cartoon

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Cartoons/Illustrations Kyle Brett
Contents of this tag:
1. Clips from Fashion Adverts
2. Burke and Hare Cartoon
3. Dr. Knox Cartoon
4. Corn Plaster
5. Drawing of Little Nell
6. Victoria Cartoon
7. Pill Man
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9. Mudlarks
10. First London Drinking Fountain
11. Ghost Chasing Man
12. William Hare Sketch
13. Victorian Children illness
14. Burke Sketch
15. Execution of William Burke

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Lore: Supply and Demand Link to Lore's website and stable streaming link of "Supply and Demand"

This podcast retells the story of the final murder committed by Burke and Hare, presenting the myth that grew out of the real-life true crime narrative. Mahnke's narration is telling, however, at the conclusion. Though Burke and Hare were famed criminals (indeed, Burke's skeleton is still on display) and their punishments arguably moments of public catharsis, Mahnke wishes to humanize Hare at the conclusion of his retelling. This move, strange as it may be, also complicates the history over Burke and Hare's status as hard laborers. I argue that, unlike their contemporaries, modern readers/tellers of the Burke and Hare myth reach to understand, or at least point toward, the economic need to resort to violence and the breaking of social mores.

Taken from Lore's website: "Throughout history, certain individuals have managed to rise to the challenge in the face of difficulty. But in 1827, that attitude was taken to a new—and horrific—level."