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  • The Perilous Deep

    A Supernatural History of the Atlantic

    by Karl Bell ...
    The vast expanse, unknown depths, dangers and mysteries of the sea have led mariners to create fantastical stories of ghosts and monsters for centuries; it is a world strange and ‘other’ to the experience of land dwellers. This body of lore has served to bond nautical communities together around the world and throughout history, with international stories fusing with local tales. The Perilous Deep ... Read more

    $22.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack

    Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures

    by Karl Bell ...
    WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs AwardNEW LOWER PRICEThis 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 before finally degenerating into a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Supernatural Cities

    Enchantment, Anxiety and Spectrality

    by Karl Bell, Maria del Pilar Blanco, Mikhail Vandyshev, Morag Rose, Natalia Veselkova, Oliver Betts, Sharn Waldron, Tom Sykes, Tracy Fahey, William Pooley0, William Redwood1, Alevtina Solovyova2, Alex Bevan3, David J. Puglia4, David Waldron5, Deirdre Flynn6, Elena Pryamikova7, Felicity Wood8 ...
    Since the Enlightenment, supernatural beliefs and practices have largely been derided as ignorant and un-modern - even anti-modern - and cities, being the ultimate symbol of progress and rationality, have not been thought to harbour magic. Scholars have long assumed that the world of the supernatural withered under the impact of urbanisation; yet, as numerous books, films and T.V. series from ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Magical Imagination

    Magic and Modernity in Urban England, 1780–1914

    by Karl Bell ...
    This innovative history of popular magical mentalities in nineteenth-century England explores the dynamic ways in which the magical imagination helped people to adjust to urban life. Previous studies of modern popular magical practices and supernatural beliefs have largely neglected the urban experience. Karl Bell, however, shows that the magical imagination was a key cultural resource which ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Port Towns and Urban Cultures

    International Histories of the Waterfront, c.1700—2000

    Edited by Brad Beaven, Karl Bell, Robert James ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Despite the port’s prominence in maritime history, its cultural significance has long been neglected in favour of its role within economic and imperial networks. Defined by their intersection of maritime and urban space, port towns were sites of complex cultural exchanges. This book, the product of international scholarship, offers innovative and challenging perspectives on the cultural histories ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

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    The Perilous Deep

    A Supernatural History of the Atlantic

    by Karl Bell ...
    Narrated by Liam Gerrard ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 22 min

    The story of the stories we tell about the abyss, uncanny folklore linking seafarers across time and the globe.The vast expanse, unknown depths, dangers, and mysteries of the sea have led mariners to create fantastical stories of ghosts and monsters for centuries; it is a world strange and other to the experience of land dwellers. This body of lore has served to bond nautical communities together ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel

    by John Wilson Foster ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans such diverse authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Maria Edgeworth, Bram Stoker, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Lady Morgan, John Banville, and others. Yet it has until now received less critical attention than Irish poetry and drama. This volume covers three hundred years of Irish achievement in fiction, with essays on key genres, themes, ... Read more

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  • The Making of English Popular Culture

    Edited by John Storey ...
    Series series Directions in Cultural History
    The Making of English Popular Culture provides an account of the making of popular culture in the nineteenth century.While a form of what we might describe as popular culture existed before this period, John Storey has assembled a collection that demonstrates how what we now think of as popular culture first emerged as a result of the enormous changes that accompanied the industrial revolution. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature

    by Cóilín Parsons ...
    The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature offers a fresh new look at the origins of literary modernism in Ireland, tracing a history of Irish writing through James Clarence Mangan, J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett. Beginning with the archives of the Ordnance Survey, which mapped Ireland between 1824 and 1846, the book argues that one of the sources of Irish modernism ... Read more

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  • Memory Ireland

    Volume 3: The Famine and the Troubles

    Edited by Oona Frawley ...
    Series series Irish Studies
    Recent years have seen cultural memory become a significant element in area studies and the humanities. Ireland, with its trauma-filled history and huge global diaspora, presents a fascinating subject for work in this vein. This series as a whole seeks to construct a landscape of cultural memory in Ireland, looking to map—through an examination of various historical moments, spaces, and cultural ... Read more

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  • A History of the Irish Novel

    by Derek Hand ...
    Derek Hand's A History of the Irish Novel is a major work of criticism on some of the greatest and most globally recognisable writers of the novel form. Writers such as Laurence Sterne, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett and John McGahern have demonstrated the extraordinary intellectual range, thematic complexity and stylistic innovation of Irish fiction. Derek Hand provides a remarkably ... Read more

    $45.09 USD