The legend of spring-heeled Jack Victorian urban folklore and popular cultures
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 f...
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Boydell & Brewer
2012
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction
- The 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