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873559
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Srebnick, Amy Gilman.
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The mysterious death of Mary Rogers : : sex and culture in nineteenth-century New York /\ Amy Gilman Srebnick.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1995.
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| Series Statement
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Studies in the history of sexuality
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xix, 218 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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019506237X
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: 0195113926
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: 9780195062373
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: 9780195113921
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-212) and index.
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| Contents
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1. Prologue: The Mary Rogers tragedy -- 2. A body floating between two tides -- The discovery -- Of boarders and other suspects -- The Mary Rogers mystery -- 3. "The beautiful segar girl": Mary in the city of the new world -- Of Mathers and Rogers -- The beautiful segar girl -- Of tobacco shops, sporting culture, and boardinghouses -- Conclusion: Mary in the land of strangers -- 4. The "public prints," the body of Mary Rogers, and the violence of representation -- The public prints -- The tortured body and the violence of representation -- The press invents the death of Mary Rogers -- 5. "Who murdered Mary Rogers?": police reform, abortion, and the criminalization of private life -- Policing the city: the case of police reform -- Policing sex: the case of Madame Restell -- Postscript: convergent genealogy -- Poe detects Marie: Poe, Mary Rogers, and the birth of detective fiction -- The problematic spectacle -- Poe detects the city -- The public prints: Poe gives a lesson in reading -- Landscaping the female body: the Mystery of Marie Roget -- 7. Tales of New York in the ink of truth: reinventing Mary Rogers -- Reinventing Mary Rogers -- Inventing history -- Conclusion: tales of New York.
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| Abstract
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Srebnick uses the famous, unsolved murder of a Manhattan woman in 1841 as a window into urban culture in the mid-nineteenth-century.
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Rogers, Mary,1820-1841.
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Rogers, Mary,1820-1841.
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Rogers, Mary (Verkäuferin)
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Rogers, Mary,1820-1841.
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City and town life-- New York (State)-- New York-- History-- 19th century.
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Murder-- New York (State)-- New York-- History-- 19th century.
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Sex crimes-- New York (State)-- New York-- History-- 19th century.
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Sex role-- New York (State)-- New York-- History-- 19th century.
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Sex crimes-- New York (N.Y.)-- History-- 19th century.
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Gender Identity-- history.
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Homicide-- history.
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Life Style-- history.
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Sex Offenses-- history.
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Social Environment-- history.
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City and town life.
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Manners and customs.
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Murder.
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Sex crimes.
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Sex role.
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Tod
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New York (N.Y.), Social life and customs, 19th century.
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New York (N.Y.), Social life and customs, 19th century.
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New York (State), New York.
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| Dewey Classification
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364.1/523/092
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| LC Classification
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HV6534.N5S69 1995
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