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Jack the Ripper: Media, Culture, Historycollects together some of the best academic work on 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 the Whitechapel Murders on race, gender, the press, fiction, film and the city of London. This is the first collection of its kind to take the Whitechapel Murders seriously as a vital ingredient in the creation of modern Britain, and the first collection of essays from diverse fields of scholarship to offer academic analysis of the representations and influence of the Whitechapel Murders on both the nineteenth century and the contemporary world.

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

Introduction
Media
The house that Jack built
The pursuit of angles
Casting the spell of terror: the press and the early Whitechapel Murders
Order out of chaos
Blood and ink: narrating the Whitechapel Murders
Culture
The Ripper writing: a cream of a nightmare dream
The Whitechapel Murders and the medical gaze
‘Jonathan’s great knife’: Dracula meets Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper, Sherlock Holmes and the narrative of detection
Living in the slashing grounds: Jack the Ripper, monopoly rent and the new heritage
History
Narratives of sexual danger
Jack the Ripper as the threat of outcast London
‘Who kills whores?’ ‘I do’, says Jack: race and gender in Victorian London
East End 1888
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