Crime At El Escorial

The 1892 Child Murder, the Press, and the Jury

D.J. Walker (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

228 Seiten

2014
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-6355-7 (ISBN)

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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a comparative social and judicial analysis of an 1892 child murder, drawing from newspaper archives among other historical documents.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.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.8.2014
Zusatzinfo	3 BW Photos
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 226 mm
Gewicht	354 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
ISBN-10	0-7618-6355-9 / 0761863559
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-6355-7 / 9780761863557
Zustand	Neuware