On Waxworks Considered as One of the Hyperreal Arts: Exhibiting Jack the Ripper and His Victims
The article discusses one of the tropes present in the representations of the Whitechapel killer: the waxworks of either the killer or his victims. These images were shaped by contemporary attitudes: from sensationalism in 1888, through the developing myth and business of ‘Jack the Ripper,...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2018-05-01
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| Series: | Humanities |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/7/2/54 |