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Dr Rowland Berkley is an upper-middle-class intellectual, revolted by the modern world and his own existence. Weary of the optimism of his well-meaning brother Joseph, who works as manager of a factory owned by magnate John Calhoun, Rowland divides his time between study, vapid social engagements and bouts of existential disgust. He seeks respite in his work as a philosopher of phrenology, initially unconcerned by the murky methods through which his mentor secures dead bodies for anatomical study.
Harker O'Malley is a union man and grave-robber, always on the look-out for the corpse that
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Dr Rowland Berkley is an upper-middle-class intellectual, revolted by the modern world and his own existence. Weary of the optimism of his well-meaning brother Joseph, who works as manager of a factory owned by magnate John Calhoun, Rowland divides his time between study, vapid social engagements and bouts of existential disgust. He seeks respite in his work as a philosopher of phrenology, initially unconcerned by the murky methods through which his mentor secures dead bodies for anatomical study.

Harker O'Malley is a union man and grave-robber, always on the look-out for the corpse that will garner the best sum. While his adoptive mother, Peggy, works day and night in Calhoun's factory, Harker and his family strive to supplement their income through illegal means. This becomes increasingly necessary, and risky, when the family provokes the grudge of a corrupt parish constable.

While union activity threatens to undermine Joseph's authority in the factory, Rowland and Harker's social circles begin to collide. Exploring class relations in the early Industrial Revolution, Shadows Beneath Gaslights is a self-aware, at times scathing and grotesque, exploration of modernity, alienation and the legacy of the Enlightenment.


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Autorenporträt
Teresa van der Kraan was born in Australia to European parents, and has been interested in writing fiction since a very young age. She has been involved since age 14 in local writing initiatives and centres in her home town of Armidale, NSW. As of 2014, Teresa undertook university study at the University of New England (UNE), graduating in 2018 with a Bachelors Degree majoring in International History. She completed her Honours degree in 2019, on the subject of veterans in Weimar Germany, and as of 2020 has begun writing her PhD thesis on German and Austrian fascism.

In her free time, Teresa is a horror movie addict, and loves to spend time with friends and her cats.