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Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2

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Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2yd's People’s Periodical and family Library featured the first instalment of a series innocently titled The String of Pearls. Under rhe title, a broad

illustration showed a weeping girl sirring ar a kitchen table, in rhe company of a gentleman. The gentleman’s expression is concerned, and a little d Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2

og anxiously looks at rhe distressed girl. The domestic scene is carefully crafted to attract the reader’s attention, hinting at an exciting story beh

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ind the girl’s tears. Yet, nothing transpires from the illustration, or rhe title, about rhe lurid story of human flesh-pics better known to US as Swe

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Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2rprising, as the jewel soon ceases to have a key role in the story, overcome by the striking presence of one of Victorian popular fiction’s most formi

dable villains: rhe ‘demon’ barber Sweeney Todd. Similar to other penny blood villains, rhe barbells a murderer, a robber, and a cunning cheater; what Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2

singles him out, making his callousness transcend humanity and become demonic, is his role as the facilitator and chief supplier of a ghastly busines

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s partnership with his pie-maker neighbour, Mrs. Lovett. In this chapter, 1 explore how this partnership reflected rhe discourses and spaces of the An

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Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2eenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine and Anatomy, Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10916-5_4

1291 30 A. GASPERINIThe barber murders his customers, the ones who will not be immediately missed, such as merchants or sailors, and who happen to be Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2

in possession of sums of money or valuables. Todd drops them in his cellar through a mechanical chair mounted over a trapdoor, breaking their necks; i

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f they survive, he ‘polishes them off with his razor. The bodies arc then butchered and transformed into 'pork' and ‘veal’ steaks, which are stored in

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Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2ar, and perhaps starts suspecting where the ‘meat’ comes from, Lovell and Todd ‘dismiss’ him and get a new cook. The scries relates the end of this pa

rtnership, following the murder of Mr. Thornhill, a sailor who, unlike Todd’s previous victims, has friends who come looking for him. The search also Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2

involves beautiful Johanna Oakley—the weeping girl of the illustration—whose fiancee, Mark Ingestrie, should have returned from his travels at sea, an

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d was the reason why Thornhill was on land at all. He was meant to give Johanna a token from Mark, the eponymous string of pearls, and to bring her th

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Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2r's friends start focusing their investigations on rhe barber. The place of barber assistant has been vacant since Tobias Ragg, Sweeney Todd's previou

s apprentice, was shut away in a mad-house afrer he starred suspecting his employer of murder. Tobias will finally manage to escape his prison, as wil Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2

l the current cook at Lovett’s, Jarvis Williams. Williams, starving and destitute, applied for a job ar rhe pic-shop in Bell Yard, and his timing was

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perfect: Lovett needed to replace her cook, and Williams took his place in the basement. After a while, though, he pieces together rhe truth behind rh

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Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2nder the tray of freshly cooked pics. As he reaches rhe top, he jumps up and screams rhe terrible truth to rhe customers: they are gorging themselves

on human flesh. Mrs. Lovett dies, nor because she is unable to cope with rhe events, bur because Todd had poisoned her a few hours earlier. Conscience Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2

was starting to take its toll on the pastry-cook, which prompted Todd to make sure that she never compromised his cover. Finally, Todd is hanged, and

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Johanna is reunited with Mark Ingestrie, who is revealed to be Jarvis Williams. The story closes on Lovett’s last living customer, an old man who sti

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Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2ritings of this story make it probably the only penny blood to be famous outside academic circles, and in scholarly circles, Sweeney Todd is still an

object of analysis and debate. Its authorship, for instance, is still controversial: traditionally, the text was attributed to Thomas Peeked Prest and Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2

, while Helen Smith has produced convincing evidence in favour of Rvmcr, other scholars remain sceptical.1 Crone takes yet a different stand, arguing

Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2

that any debate around the authorship of penny bloods is pointless, unless it is aimed at highlighting the genre’s fundamental homogencitv.2 I do nor

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Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2 of the narratives. However, it is nor my purpose here to add to rhe authorship debate, bur rather to analyse the role of this highly successful penny

blood as a vehicle of discourses connected with rhe world of medicine and dissection.In Chapter 1, 1 have explained how there is a consensus among li Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2

terary scholars that Sweeney Todd was deeply rooted in the socio-historical context of the mid nineteenth-century, and that it elaborated anxieties sp

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ecific to the lower section of the social spectrum, which Lloyd’s productions explicitly addressed. Significantly, scholarship on this narrative rends

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Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2 Indeed, while the medical discourse is more elusive in this than in rhe other penny bloods examined in this book as there are no doctors amongst the

characters, this very elusiveness is crucial to chart rhe medical discourse in Sweeney Todd, a story in which rhe impossibility of speaking about cert Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2

ain topics is the key to understanding the power dynamics between characters. London was already familiar with popular myths of butchery and cannibali

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sm before rhe narrative was serialized.4 Still, the presence of a barber cutting corpses into pieces in an underground space is meaningful in a histor

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Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2r conscience likened rhe work of surgeons and anatomists to butchery, and the burk-ers’ incidents literalized the concept of retailing the human body

as if it were butcher’s meat. The combination of these elements triggered a set of anxieties about cannibalism, rhe idea of cooking and consuming huma Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2

n flesh, related to the anatomy world. Furthermore, as early as 1948, Turner noticed the ‘grim double-entendre' of the Sweeney Todd plot5; this double

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-entendre, which characterizes particularly rhe speech1 32 A. GASPER.INIof rhe murderous couple Todd-Lovett, can be examined against the background of

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Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2s the way in which the Anatomy Act put the powerless members of society in a position comparable to that of a portion of meat for a grinder, while ben

efiting chiefly, if not entirely, the more powerful echelons of society.The use of cannibalism as a metaphor for heartless treatment of the pauper was Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2

already parr of British reading culture: in 1729, Jonathan Swift’s satirical pamphlet A Modest Proposal suggested that the Irish pauper should start,

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not only selling their children as choice meat to the rich, but that the population should start breeding them with precisely that purpose. ‘A young

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Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2marriage, motherly love, and make husbands more loving of their pregnant wives.7 'lite String of Pearls plays on a similar representation of a brutali

zed, bestial society where people who will not be missed become cattle for the butcher’s knife to solve the problem of rhe rising number of the destit Ebook Nineteenth centurypopular fiction, medicineand anatomy: Part 2

ute. Todd and T.overt’s business, like the Anatomy Act, was a perfect solution: they both ensured that nothing was wasted, minimized the costs while m

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aximizing the income, and were, in their efficiency, perfectly soulless.Tn this chapter, Ĩ suggest that Sweeney Todd reiterated anxieties about the un