Naslov
“Reinventing the Excluded City in Richard Warlow’s Ripper Street (2012-2016)”

Autori
Musap, Emilia

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
"Victorian Inclusion and Exclusion" - Abstracts and Biographies / - , 2021, 77-77

Skup
"Victorian Inclusion and Exclusion"

Mjesto i datum
Online (Sveučilište Greenwich, London), 14.-16.07.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
London, East End, fin de siècle, Wolfreys

Sažetak
Richard Warlow’s television series Ripper Street (2012-2016) is set in April 1889, six months after Jack the Ripper’s murders. Despite Ripper’s absence, Whitechapel’s H-Division’s detectives are vigorously policing the part of the metropolis where the murders and mutilations of Mary Anne Nichols and Annie Chapman transpired. The paper opens up with the discussion on whether fin de siècle’s formulaic subscriptions spatialize East End as a threatening, disorderly district by focusing on its opening scene, the portrayal of the police as ineffectual, and the well-established antithesis between London's West and East End. Still, in his seminal study on the 19th-century city, Wolfreys writes that there was another world in London, often overshadowed by the attention provided to the polar extremes and emblematic exoticism that are at the heart of historicized fin de siècle analysis (Inventions of the City 94). This “other world” is persistently excluded from predominant fictionalizations of the East End that are principally interested in asserting poverty and accompanying criminality as the city’s constituent elements (ibid.). Instead of adopting an iconography that merely degrades East End into a decidedly eerie setting, the paper aims at arguing that the series does not simply reconstruct but partially reinvent the city, producing an alternative articulation that transcends the fixity of its fin de siècle’s form. Arguably, this is achieved by forgoing the Ripper myth as a major factor in the creation of the end-of-century city, by portraying East End during daylight that demystifies its inarticulability, and by positioning both the individuals traditionally introduced as abject and the innocent casualties of the predominant 19th-century problems front and center.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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