Jack the Ripper and the London Press
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Press coverage of the 1888 mutilation murders attributed to Jack the Ripper was of necessity filled with gaps and silences, for the killer remained unknown and Victorian journalists had little experience reporting serial murders and sex crimes. This engrossing book examines how fourteen London newspapers--dailies and weeklies, highbrow and lowbrow--presented the Ripper news, in the process revealing much about the social, political, and sexual anxieties...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0300088728
ISBN13:9780300088724
Release Date:November 2001
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"
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