WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award
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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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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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Cuprins
IntroductionThe Legend of Spring-heeled Jack
The Cultural Anatomy of a Legend
Spring-heeled Jack, Crime and the Reform of Customary Culture
Spring-heeled Jack and Victorian Society
Spring-heeled Jack and London
Cultural Nodes: Localities
Cultural Modes: Oral, Literary and Visual
The Decline and Demise of Spring-heeled Jack
Conclusion: Spring-heeled Jack and Victorian Popular Cultures
Bibliography
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Limba Engleză ● Format PDF ● Pagini 272 ● ISBN 9781782040392 ● Mărime fișier 3.2 MB ● Editura Boydell & Brewer ● Oraș Woodbridge ● Țară GB ● Publicat 2012 ● Ediție 1 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 6946037 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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