Moments of Cultural Transition: As Mediaeval and Superstitious Scotland Meets The More Modern World

J. S. Ryan, T. J. S. Ryan

Abstract


The beautiful city of Edinburgh has a squalid past, one not disguised by its Enlightenment image and the fine university. Shock, violence, body-snatching and the occult were significant aspects of the city from c. 1828 to 1832. There are here treated several scholarly ‘fictions’ that expose that past in lurid fashion.


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Identity;

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