Crime At El Escorial

D.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.

Acknowledgments
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 “Niño de el Escorial” and the Attack on the Jury
Chapter Five: Missed Opportunities
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index