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The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures
Karl Bell
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Description for The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures
Hardback.
An intriguing study of a unique and unsettling cultural phenomenon in Victorian England. WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award NEW LOWER PRICE This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Starting as oral rumours, this supposedly supernatural entity moved from rural folklore to metropolitan press sensation, co-existing in literary and theatrical forms before finally degenerating into a nursery lore bogeyman to frighten children. A mercurial and unfixed cultural phenomenon, Spring-Heeled Jack found purchase in both older folkloric traditions and emerging forms of entertainment. ... Read more
An intriguing study of a unique and unsettling cultural phenomenon in Victorian England. WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award NEW LOWER PRICE This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Starting as oral rumours, this supposedly supernatural entity moved from rural folklore to metropolitan press sensation, co-existing in literary and theatrical forms before finally degenerating into a nursery lore bogeyman to frighten children. A mercurial and unfixed cultural phenomenon, Spring-Heeled Jack found purchase in both older folkloric traditions and emerging forms of entertainment. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843837879
SKU
V9781843837879
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Ref
99-24
Reviews for The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures
A good example of the ways in which cultural history still has the potential to unlock meaning when applied to a particular sort of problem.
ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
Embraces the sheer messiness and multivocal nature of popular culture and thus radically advances our understanding of the Victorians and their world.
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
A careful and ... Read more
ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
Embraces the sheer messiness and multivocal nature of popular culture and thus radically advances our understanding of the Victorians and their world.
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
A careful and ... Read more