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Cranioklepty : Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Dickey, Colin is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Cranioklepty : Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius about?
Beginning dramatically with the opening of Haydn s grave two days after his death in October 1820, Cranioklepty takes us on an extraordinary history of a peculiar kind of obsession. The desire to own the skulls of the famous, for study, for sale, for public (and private) display, seems to be instinctual and irresistible in some people. The rise of Phrenology at the beginning of the 19th century only fed that fascination with the belief that genius leaves its mark on the very shape of the head. The after-death stories of Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Beethoven, Swedenborg, Sir Thomas Browne and many others have never before been told in such detail and vividness. Fully illustrated with some surprising images, this is a fascinating and authoritative history of ideas carried along on the guilty pleasures of an anthology of real-after-life gothic tales. From Publishers Weekly The word skullduggery finds a new meaning in Dickey's well-vetted account of those obsessed with owning the skulls of the highly talented and famous. Fiction and nonfiction writer Dickey (co-editor of Failure! Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices ) takes the reader back to the plucky grave robbers who stol
Who reads Cranioklepty : Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Dickey, Colin
- Publisher
- Unbridled Books
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781932961867
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Medical, Memoir, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.61 / 5 (158 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
