The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures by Karl Bell

The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures

Karl Bell

262 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs AwardNEW LOWER PRICEThis 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 supernatur...

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