Ripperature: Building the Myth
Gracie Bain
What do you think of when you hear "Jack the Ripper"? In 1888, five women, Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Kelly, were murdered and muti...
Episode list
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May 30, 2024
16 min
Episode Ten: Conclusion
Well, here we are! It’s the final episode of this season. Today, we’ll recap our arguments and reflect on the journey.Works Cited can be found on my website.Audio Credits:Audio Cre...
moreMay 22, 2024
57 min
Episode Nine: From Hell
In the last episode of our detective chapter, we examine the movie From Hell and a fictional version of the historical detective involved in the actual case, Detective Abberline. W...
moreMay 15, 2024
1 hr 0 min
Episode Eight: Stalking Jack the Ripper
It’s time! In this episode, we discuss the very popular book Stalking Jack the Ripper and how the protagonist/forensic detective is a complicated portrayal of neo-Victorian gender....
moreMay 8, 2024
58 min
Episode Seven: A Study in Terror
Today, we’ll explore a film called A Study in Terror, which combines two very famous Victorian figures, Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper. In this episode, we talk about how one ...
moreMay 1, 2024
57 min
Episode Six: Ripperature Detectives
In our first episode on detectives, we walk through some common detective tropes, the dependence of Ripperature on those tropes, and the dime novel “The Whitechapel Murders: Or, On...
moreApril 25, 2024
48 min
Episode Five: The Michaelmas Girls
In our final episode on Jill the Ripper, we examine perhaps one of the more difficult texts, The Michaelmas Girls, to discuss Jill the Ripper’s violence. In this episode, an unoffi...
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