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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: D.J. WalkerPublisher: University Press of America Imprint: University Press of America Edition: Revised Edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.60cm Weight: 0.354kg ISBN: 9780761863557ISBN 10: 0761863559 Pages: 228 Publication Date: 01 August 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Mass Taste and Crime Reporting in the Spanish Press of the 1890s Chapter Two: Fictionalizing the Escorial Crime Chapter Three: The Escorial Case as Rural Gothic Chapter Four: The Case of the Nino de el Escorial and the Attack on the Jury Chapter Five: Missed Opportunities Epilogue Bibliography IndexReviewsD. J. Walker's Crime at El Escorial was a path-breaking study of the Spanish press and its influence on the public and jurisprudence. I know of no other historical examination of this subject area that is as richly detailed, comparative and fully researched. Professor Walker was able to coalesce impressive archival and literary sources in this volume. The addition of the epilogue to the revised edition brings the jury question to the forefront of the study. There are many problems with the jury system as currently practised here in the US and elsewhere. Crime at El Escorial brings a powerful, evocative historical element that should be welcome in any meaningful public discussion of the jury system and its equity. I recommend this work to anyone interested in such a discussion in the past or at present. * Bulletin of Spanish Studies * Crime at El Escorial is an illuminating, well-documented study of the rise of a mass readership and the power of the popular press in Spain, as seen through the 1892 murder of a child. In this most welcome revised edition, Walker includes new material on the case, bringing it up to the present with the reinstitution of the jury trial in 1995. -- Noel Valis, Yale University A compelling account of the coverage of a brutal child murder near Madrid in 1892 and its fallout, D.J. Walker's book explores the power and the nature of journalism in late nineteenth-century Spain. The unremitting focus on sensationalism and the failure to engage with broader issues raised by the case had serious consequences, including undermining the legitimacy of the new jury system. -- Adrian Shubert, professor of history, York University Crime at El Escorial is an illuminating, well-documented study of the rise of a mass readership and the power of the popular press in Spain, as seen through the 1892 murder of a child. In this most welcome revised edition, Walker includes new material on the case, bringing it up to the present with the reinstitution of the jury trial in 1995. -- Noel Valis, Yale University A compelling account of the coverage of a brutal child murder near Madrid in 1892 and its fallout, D.J. Walker's book explores the power and the nature of journalism in late nineteenth-century Spain. The unremitting focus on sensationalism and the failure to engage with broader issues raised by the case had serious consequences, including undermining the legitimacy of the new jury system. -- Adrian Shubert, professor of history, York University Author InformationD.J. Walker is professor emerita at the University of New Orleans. She specializes in the late nineteenth-century social history of Spain and its principal colonies, Cuba and the Philippines. Her books include Representations of the Cuban and Philippine Insurrections on the Spanish Stage: 1887-1898 and Spanish Women and the Colonial Wars of the 1890s, as well as a translation of On Captivity. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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