In recent years, much critical attention has focused on the impact of the serial
killer figure on such established literary genres as detective and gothic fiction. The
present study reverses this mode of inquiry by looking at the effect of modernist and postmodernist
narrative in shaping the cultural construction of archetypal serial murderer Jack
the Ripper. Texts discussed include The Whitechapel Murders Papers (1889), Adelaide
Belloc-Lowndes' The Lodger (1913), Iain Sinclair's White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings
(1987) and Charles Palliser's Betrayals (1994). Of specific concern is the way in which
the aesthetic co-option of serial murder has continually worked to obscure and
depoliticize its gendered nature. The study closes by suggesting ways in which the
wrongs of the Ripper might be re-written in order to produce a less misogynist and exotic
conception of multiple murder. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/5856 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Ferguson, Christine Cecilia |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Format | 3259724 bytes, application/pdf |
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