Jan Bondeson: Strange Victoriana

Cover: 9781445686554 | Strange Victoriana | Jan Bondeson | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2018

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Beschreibung

This book makes use of a privately held archive of 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. The White Gorilla takes a swig from its tankard of beer, eagles come swooping from the sky to carry off little children, and the Rat-Killing Monkey of Manchester goes on a rampage, . Each one of these tales is a window into an era that encapsulated public probity and private hysteria in the strangest of ways.

Über den Autor

JAN BONDESON is a senior lecturer and consultant rheumatologist at the University of Wales College of Medicine. His many critically acclaimed books include Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, The Great Pretenders and the best-selling Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear. A respected true crime historian he has written twenty books, among them The London Monster and Rivals of the Ripper (both The History Press).

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781445686554
ISBN-10:	1445686554
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Bondeson, Jan
Hersteller:	Amberley Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	195 x 124 x 24 mm
Von/Mit:	Jan Bondeson
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.11.2018
Gewicht:	0,294 kg