Chapter title | 'I hate this job': Guiding Ripper Tours in the East End |
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Authors | McEvoy, E. |
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Editors | Jones, K., Poore, B. and Dean, R. |
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Abstract | On the streets of Whitechapel, London, independent tour guides are operating where official heritage organizations will not tread. The East End has recently experienced a rapid proliferation of thanatourism in the form of Ripper tours and a Ripper ‘museum’. This essay offers a survey and account of this Ripper tourism. Its central concern is with the Ripper tours, which it considers as street theatre. The essay looks at the narrative and performance modes guides draw on to negotiate their highly contentious subject matter, and considers the tours’ complex relation to the Gothic. |
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Keywords | Gothic Tours Ripperology Ghost Walks Thanatourism London |
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Book title | Contemporary Gothic Drama: Attraction, Consummation and Consumption on the Modern British Stage |
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Page range | 161-180 |
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Year | 2018 |
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Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
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Publication dates |
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Published | 23 Apr 2018 |
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Place of publication | London |
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Series | Palgrave Gothic |
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ISBN | 9781349953585 |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95359-2_9 |
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File | License All rights reserved File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
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