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Strange Victoriana

- Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorian Ancestors
Af: Jan Bondeson Engelsk Paperback

Strange Victoriana

- Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorian Ancestors
Af: Jan Bondeson Engelsk Paperback
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This book makes use of a privately held archive of the old periodical Illustrated Police News to describe strange, macabre and uncanny episodes from the Victorian era. Dog-Faced Men are exhibited on stage, the doctors congregate around the bed of the Sleeping Frenchman of Soho, Miss Vint demonstrates her Reincarnated Cats, and scantily dressed Female Somnambulists tumble from the roofs. From the spectral world, we have the Haunted Murder House near Chard, the Ghost of Berkeley Square, the Jumping Spectre of Peckham and the Fighting Ghost of Tondu. The White Gorilla takes a swig from its tankard of beer, eagles come swooping from the sky to carry off little children, heroic Newfoundland dogs plunge into the waves to rescue drowning mariners, and the Rat-Killing Monkey of Manchester goes on a rampage in the rat-pit, swinging a hammer. How is it that Britain’s most straitened and sober era produced these most fantastical myths and case studies? For all of its infamous restraint and repression, a seething underworld of urban legend and vice, accompanied by the shadow of unconscious nightmare, stalked Victorian life. Each one of these tales is a window into an era that encapsulated public probity and private hysteria in the strangest of ways. After reading this book, your views on Victorian culture will change forever.
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This book makes use of a privately held archive of the old periodical Illustrated Police News to describe strange, macabre and uncanny episodes from the Victorian era. Dog-Faced Men are exhibited on stage, the doctors congregate around the bed of the Sleeping Frenchman of Soho, Miss Vint demonstrates her Reincarnated Cats, and scantily dressed Female Somnambulists tumble from the roofs. From the spectral world, we have the Haunted Murder House near Chard, the Ghost of Berkeley Square, the Jumping Spectre of Peckham and the Fighting Ghost of Tondu. The White Gorilla takes a swig from its tankard of beer, eagles come swooping from the sky to carry off little children, heroic Newfoundland dogs plunge into the waves to rescue drowning mariners, and the Rat-Killing Monkey of Manchester goes on a rampage in the rat-pit, swinging a hammer. How is it that Britain’s most straitened and sober era produced these most fantastical myths and case studies? For all of its infamous restraint and repression, a seething underworld of urban legend and vice, accompanied by the shadow of unconscious nightmare, stalked Victorian life. Each one of these tales is a window into an era that encapsulated public probity and private hysteria in the strangest of ways. After reading this book, your views on Victorian culture will change forever.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 352
ISBN-13: 9781445686554
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1445686554
Kategori: Victoriatidens England
Udg. Dato: 15 nov 2018
Længde: 23mm
Bredde: 136mm
Højde: 193mm
Forlag: Amberley Publishing
Oplagsdato: 15 nov 2018
Forfatter(e): Jan Bondeson
Forfatter(e) Jan Bondeson

Kategori Victoriatidens England

ISBN-13 9781445686554

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 352

Udgave

Længde 23mm

Bredde 136mm

Højde 193mm

Udg. Dato 15 nov 2018

Oplagsdato 15 nov 2018

Forlag Amberley Publishing

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