The Time Machine EXTRA-SODE 3: Dr. Katherine Ready
Dr. Kathryn Ready is an Associate Professor in the English Department at The University of Winnipeg.
Dr. Ready’s specialty is research on Mad Scientists in literature, think Victor Frankenstein, we get into some characteristics of these figures and what they have to do with how we think about the novella.
With Charlene Van Buekenhout (host)
Discussion topics by Dr. Vanessa Warne
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Dalnavert Artifact Tie-In
“Mad science” wasn’t just found in Victorian literature, it was also found in the everyday family’s medicine cabinet! Experimental ingredients in some of these treatments included arsenic, strychnine, and chloroform.
Assorted medicines, c. late 1800s - early 1900s.