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.
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.
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
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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
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
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