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Carving the National Body: Jack the Ripper
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Lennard, D 2018
, 'Carving the National Body: Jack the Ripper', in HB Pettey and R Barton Palmer (eds.), Rule, Britannia! The Biopic and British National Identity
, State University of New York Press, Albany, New York, pp. 205-222.
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Abstract
There is considerable doubt about whether the perpetrator of the Whitechapel murders possessed medical expertise, or was person of aristocratic pedigree, yet the notion of Jack the Ripper as a sure-handed and affluent anatomist has become thoroughly entrenched in popular imagination.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Authors/Creators: | Lennard, D |
| Keywords: | cinema studies, jack the ripper, social class, British national identity |
| Publisher: | State University of New York Press |
| Copyright Information: | Copyright 2018 State University of New York Press |
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