Jack the Ripper and the London Press

Only about half of the book actually analyzes the Ripper reportage, which, like today's journalism, reflected the social, political, and moral climate of the time. Although Victorian sensibilities dictated that certain details be sanitized or omitted altogether, competition among the daily and weekly papers led each to devote increasing space to the investigations and to the associated speculation and analysis. With its decidedly Anglocentric vocabulary and with close to 700 endnotes - many containing details that are far from marginal -, this scholarly work may prove slow going for the amateur U.S. Ripperologist. Recommended for academic and larger public libraries only.