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Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends
Taschenbuch von Simon Young
Sprache: Englisch

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In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including "the Choking Doberman," "the Eaten Ticket," and "the Vanishing Hitchhiker." But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or precursors of the urban legends of today, rather than as stories in their own right. In The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends, Simon Young fills this gap for British folklore (and for the wider English-speaking world) of the 1800s. Young introduces seventy Victorian urban legends ranging from "Beetle Eyes" to the "Shoplifter's Dilemma" and from "Hands in the Muff" to "the Suicide Club." While a handful of these stories are already known, the vast majority have never been identified, and they have certainly never received scholarly treatment. Young begins the volume with a lengthy introduction assessing nineteenth-century media, emphasizing the importance of the written word to the perpetuation and preservation of these myths. He draws on numerous nineteenth-century books, periodicals, and ephemera, including digitized newspaper archives--particularly the British Newspaper Archive, an exciting new hunting ground for folklorists. The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends will appeal to an academic audience as well as to anyone who is interested in urban legends.
In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including "the Choking Doberman," "the Eaten Ticket," and "the Vanishing Hitchhiker." But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or precursors of the urban legends of today, rather than as stories in their own right. In The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends, Simon Young fills this gap for British folklore (and for the wider English-speaking world) of the 1800s. Young introduces seventy Victorian urban legends ranging from "Beetle Eyes" to the "Shoplifter's Dilemma" and from "Hands in the Muff" to "the Suicide Club." While a handful of these stories are already known, the vast majority have never been identified, and they have certainly never received scholarly treatment. Young begins the volume with a lengthy introduction assessing nineteenth-century media, emphasizing the importance of the written word to the perpetuation and preservation of these myths. He draws on numerous nineteenth-century books, periodicals, and ephemera, including digitized newspaper archives--particularly the British Newspaper Archive, an exciting new hunting ground for folklorists. The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends will appeal to an academic audience as well as to anyone who is interested in urban legends.
Über den Autor
Simon Young is a British folklore historian based in Italy. He has a longstanding interest in the study of the supernatural. In 2017 he editedMagical Folk (2017) with Ceri Houlbrook, and has published dozens of peer-reviewed articles in the likes of Folk Life, Folklore, Gramarye, Supernatural Studies and Tradition Today.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 270
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781496839466
ISBN-10: 1496839463
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Young, Simon
Hersteller: University Press of Mississippi
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Simon Young
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.06.2022
Gewicht: 0,443 kg
preigu-id: 122009239
Über den Autor
Simon Young is a British folklore historian based in Italy. He has a longstanding interest in the study of the supernatural. In 2017 he editedMagical Folk (2017) with Ceri Houlbrook, and has published dozens of peer-reviewed articles in the likes of Folk Life, Folklore, Gramarye, Supernatural Studies and Tradition Today.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 270
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781496839466
ISBN-10: 1496839463
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Young, Simon
Hersteller: University Press of Mississippi
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Simon Young
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.06.2022
Gewicht: 0,443 kg
preigu-id: 122009239
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