Black Butler: A Neo-Victorian Jack the Ripper and the Child Detective
In Toboso Yana’s anime Black Butler, she pairs the figures of the child detective with Jack the Ripper to arrive at a complex array of meanings. The Ripper figure continues to have one of the most popular afterlives following its original context of Victorian Britain, with numerous contemporary ite...
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| Main Author: | Joti Bilkhu |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2023-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Anime and Manga Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/jams/article/view/1178 |
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