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Paperback The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures Book
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ISBN: 1783271914

ISBN13: 9781783271917

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

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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...

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