{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/692d66fb9b21443f851785bb/697a214b6e7bdf1065078259?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Victorian attitudes towards death","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/692d66fb9b21443f851785bb/1769610670645-4fa88704-2c0a-4468-b91d-ca6d642b77a1.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>In this bonus episode, I spoke with Stone Age Herbalist about an essay he recently published on Victorian attitudes towards death.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>We discussed the cultural impact of Jack the Ripper, the terror of body snatching, the practice of postmortem photography, and the Spiritualist movement's&nbsp;preoccupation with electricity.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Discussed in the episode:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/bonus-how-the-victorians-eroticised\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">'How The Victorians Eroticised Death, From Ophelia To Salome'</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/may/17/anatomical-venus-anatomy-human-biology-joanna-ebenstein-books\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">More on the anatomical venus&nbsp;</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/meet-grandison-harris-grave-robber-enslaved-and-then-employed-georgia-college-medicine-180951344/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">More on body snatching and Georgia Medical College</a></li></ul><p><br></p>","author_name":"Louise Perry"}