This thesis examines the representation of crime, justice, and punishment in the popular press, w... more This thesis examines the representation of crime, justice, and punishment in the popular press, with particular focus upon The Illustrated Police News, a weekly newspaper published between 1864 and 1938. The Illustrated Police News, notorious for its sensational reporting of the week's most exciting and dramatic crimes, has traditionally been dismissed as a marginal publication. The style, content, and popularity of The Illustrated Police News challenges the view that the cultural imagination of Victorian Britain was narrowly defined by the ideal of respectability, or that by the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries popular culture had been successfully tamed. The study employs a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the content of The Illustrated Police News, sampling the newspaper at six-year intervals throughout its seventy-four years of publication. This statistical examination of the newspaper's core components, including its illustrations, sensational repor...
Autumn 2012 dobraszczyk’s resolute focus on the work of representation in all aspects of the cons... more Autumn 2012 dobraszczyk’s resolute focus on the work of representation in all aspects of the construction makes for fascinating reading that never reduces its subject to a single meaning. there is little new here, but the work is accomplished with expert knowledge, clear-sighted exposition, and the welcome lack of an overt agenda. Into the Belly of the Beast will interest specialists in the built environment, victorian architecture, and illustrated newspapers, and all victorianists will delight in the copious illustrations and dobraszczyk’s insistence on giving each of them its interpretative due. David L. Pike American University
This thesis examines the representation of crime, justice, and punishment in the popular press, w... more This thesis examines the representation of crime, justice, and punishment in the popular press, with particular focus upon The Illustrated Police News, a weekly newspaper published between 1864 and 1938. The Illustrated Police News, notorious for its sensational reporting of the week's most exciting and dramatic crimes, has traditionally been dismissed as a marginal publication. The style, content, and popularity of The Illustrated Police News challenges the view that the cultural imagination of Victorian Britain was narrowly defined by the ideal of respectability, or that by the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries popular culture had been successfully tamed. The study employs a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the content of The Illustrated Police News, sampling the newspaper at six-year intervals throughout its seventy-four years of publication. This statistical examination of the newspaper's core components, including its illustrations, sensational repor...
Autumn 2012 dobraszczyk’s resolute focus on the work of representation in all aspects of the cons... more Autumn 2012 dobraszczyk’s resolute focus on the work of representation in all aspects of the construction makes for fascinating reading that never reduces its subject to a single meaning. there is little new here, but the work is accomplished with expert knowledge, clear-sighted exposition, and the welcome lack of an overt agenda. Into the Belly of the Beast will interest specialists in the built environment, victorian architecture, and illustrated newspapers, and all victorianists will delight in the copious illustrations and dobraszczyk’s insistence on giving each of them its interpretative due. David L. Pike American University
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