Jack the Ripper

Media, culture, history
Herausgeber: Warwick, Alexandra; Willis, Martin

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Produktbeschreibung

Jack the Ripper: Media, culture, history re-assesses the most important and sensational murder case of the nineteenth century. Leading scholars in the fields of history, media and cultural studies debate the influence of 'Jack' on race, gender, the press, fiction, film and the city of London.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 461g
• ISBN-13: 9780719074943
• ISBN-10: 0719074940
• Artikelnr.: 22714967

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Warwick is Head of the Department of English and Linguistics at the University of Westminster. Martin Willis is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Glamorgan

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Alexandra Warwick and Martin Willis Part 1: Media 1. The house that Jack built
Christopher Frayling 2. The pursuit of angles
L. Perry Curtis 3. Casting the spell of terror: the press and the early Whitechapel Murders
Darren Oldridge 4. Order out of chaos
Gary Coville and Patrick Lucanio 5. Blood and ink: narrating the Whitechapel Murders
Alexandra Warwick Part 2: Culture 6. The Ripper writing: a cream of a nightmare dream
Clive Bloom 7. The Whitechapel Murders and the medical gaze
Andrew Smith 8. 'Jonathan's great knife': Dracula meets Jack the Ripper
Nicholas Rance 9. Jack the Ripper, Sherlock Holmes and the narrative of detection
Martin Willis 10. Living in the slashing grounds: Jack the Ripper, monopoly rent and the new heritage
David Cunningham Part 3 History 11. Narratives of sexual danger
Judith Walkowitz 12. Jack the Ripper as the threat of outcast London
Robert F. Haggard 13. 'Who kills whores?' 'I do', says Jack: race and gender in Victorian London
Sander L. Gilman 14. East End 1888
William Fishman