| Course Title: Jack the Ripper and the Making of Late-Victorian London |
| Start Date: 09/06/2023 End Date: 12/19/2023 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2023 |
| Description: In the summer and fall of 1888, a series of gruesome murders captured the attention of Londoners and brought questions of class, gender, race and social-economic change to the forefront of public debate. Though the culprit was never identified, Jack the Ripper became synonymous with the perceived dangers of late-Victorian London. Using newspapers, periodicals, police archives, and other sources from the period, this course will set students on an historical investigation of the "Whitechapel Murders," seeking to understand the event, its historical context, and the way historians have interpreted its meaning. |
| Distribution(s): NO - Meets No Distrib. Rqmt , FY - First-Year Seminar , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Desmond Fitz-Gibbon | dfitzgib@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/06/2023 - 12/19/2023 | Seminar | Tuesday and Thursday | 10:30AM - 11:45AM | CIRU - Ciruti | 217 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| FYSEM0001 | First-Year Seminar | This is a First-Year Seminar. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 14 | Enrollment: 18 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: They Say I Say: the moves that matter in academic writing Author: Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Birkenstein Copyright: 2021 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company |
Required | 16.00 |
| Title: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper Author: Rubenhold, Hallie Copyright: 2019 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Required | 16.99 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: Hello everyone! I've just completed the book list for this course, but I wanted to make a note that you don't necessarily need to buy specific editions of either book. I'll be referencing the 5th edition of Graff and Birkenstein, but earlier editions have almost identical text for the parts that we'll be reading, so you could definitely get by with a 3rd or 4th edition (I also have a 3rd edition copy, which I can cross-check if need be). I don't believe there are any new editions of Rubenhold, but I know there are multiple printings (and a free copy on Kindle Unlimited). I'll be working from a 1st edition hardback, so the page numbering may be off from later editions, but that is all fine too. And neither book will be required in the first two weeks, so you should still have plenty of time to order these for the class. |