Jack the Ripper and the London Press

by L. Perry Curtis Jr. and L. Curtis

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 fifteen 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: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"