[PDF.08vo] The Body in the Reservoir: Murder and Sensationalism in the South

The Body in the Reservoir: Murder and Sensationalism in the South

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 | #2302676 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  2008-04-14 |  2008-04-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.10 x.79 x6.10l,1.01 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| A Milestone In Virginia's Cultural History|By J. K. Brandau|Grandma went to church with Henry Beattie. Her uncle testified for the prosecution. Granddad attended the trial. Dr. Trotti's article on half-tone images [featuring Beattie] in "The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography" whetted my appetite for his new book "The Body in the Reservoir." It was worth the wait.
| |Offers an interesting and detailed picture of Virginia journalism. . . . [Trotti] does a particularly effective job at putting the Madison case in its larger context, comparing the coverage of her murder with that found in other regions at other times.--Jou

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. But while others have emphasized the importance of the p...

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