Name: Strange Victoriana: Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny From our Victorians Ancestors (en Inglés)
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Author: Jan Bondeson
ISBN: 9781445686554

portada Strange Victoriana: Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny From our Victorians Ancestors (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Amberley Publishing

Autor

Jan Bondeson

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

352

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781445686554

Categorías

Reino unido
Época victoriana - 1837-1901
Historia de europa

Strange Victoriana: Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny From our Victorians Ancestors (en Inglés)

Jan Bondeson (Autor) · Amberley Publishing · Tapa Blanda

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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.