Caroline McCracken-Flesher is Professor of English at the University of Wyoming. She is the author of Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (Oxford University Press, 2005) and the editor of Culture, Nation, and the New Scottish Parliament (Bucknell UP, 2007).

• Abbreviations ; 1. Medicine, Murder, and Scottish Story: ; Doctor Knox and Burke and Hare ; 2. The Story Begins: ; The Law versus the Press, and the Doctor versus Walter Scott ; 3. Enlightened System versus Religious Sympathy: ; The Sensational Tales of Alexander Leigton and David Pae ; 4. Dissecting the Doctor: ; Mr. Jekyll, Dr. Hyde, and Robert Knox ; 5. Anatomizing the Audience: ; James Bridie, Melodrama, and the Movies ; 6. Bringing out the Dead: ; Silent Victims Speak in Alasdair Gray's Poor Things ; 7. Resting in Pieces? ; Present Comforts or Restless Futures in Ian Rankin's Scotland ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

Professor McCracken-Flesher is one of the most ingenious - and readable - academics working in the field of Scottish culture, and this volume... shows her skill at teasing out a story and its implications to its best advantage.

Caroline McCracken-Flesher is Professor of English at the University of Wyoming. She is the author of Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (Oxford University Press, 2005) and the editor of Culture, Nation, and the New Scottish Parliament (Bucknell UP, 2007).

• Abbreviations ; 1. Medicine, Murder, and Scottish Story: ; Doctor Knox and Burke and Hare ; 2. The Story Begins: ; The Law versus the Press, and the Doctor versus Walter Scott ; 3. Enlightened System versus Religious Sympathy: ; The Sensational Tales of Alexander Leigton and David Pae ; 4. Dissecting the Doctor: ; Mr. Jekyll, Dr. Hyde, and Robert Knox ; 5. Anatomizing the Audience: ; James Bridie, Melodrama, and the Movies ; 6. Bringing out the Dead: ; Silent Victims Speak in Alasdair Gray's Poor Things ; 7. Resting in Pieces? ; Present Comforts or Restless Futures in Ian Rankin's Scotland ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

Professor McCracken-Flesher is one of the most ingenious - and readable - academics working in the field of Scottish culture, and this volume... shows her skill at teasing out a story and its implications to its best advantage.

Caroline McCracken-Flesher is Professor of English at the University of Wyoming. She is the author of Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow (Oxford University Press, 2005) and the editor of Culture, Nation, and the New Scottish Parliament (Bucknell UP, 2007).

• Abbreviations ; 1. Medicine, Murder, and Scottish Story: ; Doctor Knox and Burke and Hare ; 2. The Story Begins: ; The Law versus the Press, and the Doctor versus Walter Scott ; 3. Enlightened System versus Religious Sympathy: ; The Sensational Tales of Alexander Leigton and David Pae ; 4. Dissecting the Doctor: ; Mr. Jekyll, Dr. Hyde, and Robert Knox ; 5. Anatomizing the Audience: ; James Bridie, Melodrama, and the Movies ; 6. Bringing out the Dead: ; Silent Victims Speak in Alasdair Gray's Poor Things ; 7. Resting in Pieces? ; Present Comforts or Restless Futures in Ian Rankin's Scotland ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

Professor McCracken-Flesher is one of the most ingenious - and readable - academics working in the field of Scottish culture, and this volume... shows her skill at teasing out a story and its implications to its best advantage.