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The Ripper's Victims in Print - The Rhetoric of Portrayals Since 1929 (Paperback)
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The Ripper's Victims in Print - The Rhetoric of Portrayals Since 1929 (Paperback)
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Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Liz Stride, Kate Eddowes, and Mary
Jane Kelly might be contenders for the most written about women in
all of history, and yet their names mean little unless connected
with that of their killer: Jack the Ripper. Every text that pursues
the Ripper must mention them-and describe their mutilated bodies in
detail-but the women themselves remain just as mysterious as their
murderer. It has been over a century since the Ripper stalked
prostitutes through the streets of Whitechapel, and myriad authors
have tried again and again to give the murderer a name, a face, and
a biography. But what of the women? Here for the first time we see
a survey of what those books have had to say about the Canonical
Five victims of Jack the Ripper. These authors have at times nearly
passed over the living women in order to focus on their corpses,
but each has revealed something about how contemporary society
viewed those who met the Ripper's knife. This book explores the
changing attitudes toward these five women in order to examine how
cultural perception of victims has-or has not-changed since the
Victorian era.
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