City of Dreadful Delight
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Basic Info
- Author: Judith R. Walkowitz
- Year: 1992
- Type: #primary2
Summary (brief)
-cultural history of how London became mapped as a landscape of sexual peril, class anxiety, and gender warefare during the 1880s
Major Themes
Key Passages / Quotes
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Genre Notes
-We understand genre not as a static category, but as an active, historically weaponized tool of social control and narrative resistance
Characters / Concepts (if relevant)
Theory Connections
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My Argument / Interpretation
Dissertation Relevance
How could this matter to my project?
The Victorian elite viewed the working-class female body (prostitute) as a leaking site of physical and moral contamination that threatened to breach the borders of polite society; Ripper narrative functions as a literal, historical enactment of somatic horror: the violent opening up and mapping of the interior female body on teh public pavements of London