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The body in the reservoir : murder & sensationalism in the South

Summary: This book covers mass media and the sensational crime. Centered on a series of dramatic murders in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Richmond, Virginia, "The Body in the Reservoir" uses these gripping stories of crime to explore the evolution of sensationalism in southern culture. In Richmond, as across the nation, the embrace of modernity was accompanied by the prodigious growth of mass culture and its accelerating interest in lurid stories of crime and bloodshed

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ISBN: 0807831786
ISBN: 9780807831786
ISBN: 0807858420
ISBN: 9780807858424
ISBN: 146960437X
ISBN: 9781469604374
ISBN: 0807899038
ISBN: 9780807899038
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 301 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-294) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Acknowledgments; Introduction -- Discovering the Body; 1. The Origins of Virginia Crime Sensationalism; 2. Sensational Crime Comes of Age: The Cluverius Case of 1885; 3. The Disenchantment of Sensational Murder; 4. African American Sensations: Jim Crow Justice and the Richmond Planet; 5. Images of Murder: The Visual Revolution of the Halftone; 6. The Public Suspense Is Over; Epilogue -- Mass Culture's Search for Disorder; Notes; Index.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.