The Legend of Spring–Heeled Jack – Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Culture…
The Legend of Spring-Heeled JackVictorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures\nAuthor(s): Karl Bell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781843837879, 978-1843837879\nSynopsis\nAn intriguing study of a unique and unsettling cultural phenomenon in Victorian England.\n\nWINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award\n\n NEW LOWER PRICE\n 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.\nThrough this intriguing study of a unique and unsettling.
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