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The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack - Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures (Paperback)
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The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack - Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures (Paperback)
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An intriguing study of a unique and unsettling cultural phenomenon
in Victorian England. WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award
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 unfixedcultural phenomenon, Spring-Heeled Jack found
purchase in both older folkloric traditions and emerging forms of
entertainment. Through this intriguing study of a unique and
unsettling figure, Karl Bell complicates our appreciation of the
differences, interactions and similarities between various types of
popular culture between 1837 and 1904. The book draws upon a rich
variety of primary source material including folklorist accounts,
street ballads,several series of "penny dreadful" stories (and
illustrations), journals, magazines, newspapers, comics, court
accounts, autobiographies and published reminiscences. The Legend
of Spring-Heeled Jack is impressively researched social history and
provides a fascinating insight into Victorian cultures. It will
appeal to anyone with an interest in nineteenth-century English
social and cultural history, folklore or literature. Karl Bell is
Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth.
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