Victorian attitudes towards death
January 28, 2026
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January 28, 2026
Victorian attitudes towards death
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<p>In this bonus episode, I spoke with Stone Age Herbalist about an essay he recently published on Victorian attitudes towards death. </p><br /><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 preoccupation with electricity. </p><br /><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 </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><hr /><p style="color: grey; font-size: 0.75em;"> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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