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1 The Hanged Man and the Body Thief: Finding Lives in a Museum Mystery : Review Helen MacDonald , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 47 no. 2 2016; (p. 326-327)
— Review of The Hanged Man and the Body Thief : Finding Lives in a Museum Mystery Alexandra Roginski , 2015 single work biography 'Franz Joseph Gall developed the science of phrenology in the late eighteenth century, proclaiming that the human brain contained twenty-seven distinct organs, each of which controlled a given faculty—animal propensities, moral sentiments and so on. Crucially, Gall argued that the relative power or weakness of a faculty could be ascertained by examining the shape of a person’s skull. ...'
1 In the Eyes of a Steady Looker Helen MacDonald , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , October vol. 1 no. 2 2006; (p. 18)
— Review of Agamemnon's Kiss : Selected Essays Inga Clendinnen , 2006 selected work essay
1 Novel Views of History Helen MacDonald , 2006 single work essay
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 March 2006; (p. 14-15) Helen MacDonald discusses Bradley's historical novel about dissection, The Resurrectionist, and her own non-fiction work on the same historical subject, Human Remains : Episodes in Human Dissection (Melbourne University Press, 2005), in light of the current interest in literary non-fiction and the arguments for and against history being presented by historians or novelists.
1 Untitled Helen MacDonald , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Lilith , no. 10 2001; (p. 191-193)
— Review of Tiger's Eye : A Memoir Inga Clendinnen , 2000 selected work autobiography short story prose
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