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

by Karl Bell

Book Overview

An intriguing study of a unique and unsettling cultural phenomenon in Victorian England.

WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783271914
• ISBN13: 9781783271917
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"