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The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack - Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures (Hardcover)
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The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack - Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures (Hardcover)
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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. 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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