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Crime At El Escorial (eBook, ePUB)

The 1892 Child Murder, the Press, and the Jury

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Crime at El Escorial presents a comparative social and judicial analysis of an 1892 child murder, drawing from newspaper archives among other historical documents. D.J. Walker discusses the role of Spain's intellectual elite in crystallizing dissatisfaction with the popular jury through its criticism of the "masses" and the impact of journalists' fictionalized representations of the murder on public opinion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 245
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761863564
• Artikelnr.: 41459253

Autorenporträt

D.J. Walker is professor emerita at the University of New Orleans. She specializes in the late nineteenth-century social history of Spain and its principal colonies, Cuba and the Philippines. Her books include Representations of the Cuban and Philippine Insurrections on the Spanish Stage: 1887-1898 and Spanish Women and the Colonial Wars of the 1890s, as well as a translation of On Captivity.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Mass Taste and Crime Reporting in the Spanish Press of the
1890s
Chapter Two: Fictionalizing the Escorial Crime
Chapter Three: The Escorial Case as Rural Gothic
Chapter Four: The Case of the "Niño de el Escorial" and the Attack on the
Jury
Chapter Five: Missed Opportunities
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index