The nail in the skull and other Victorian urban legends
A scarily skilled critical examination of Victorian-era urban legends
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| Sprache: | eng |
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University Press of Mississippi
2022
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | A scarily skilled critical examination of Victorian-era urban legends Cover -- The NAIL in the SKULL and Other VICTORIAN URBAN LEGENDS -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Baby Picnic -- 2. Beetle Eyes -- 3. The Bosom Serpent -- 4. Buried Alive -- 5. The Cautious Druggist -- 6. Child Pie -- 7. The Chimney Boy -- 8. Chloroformed! -- 9. Covert Catholics -- 10. Cycling Afflictions -- 11. Death Dice -- 12. Devil Take Me! -- 13. Do You Know Her? -- 14. Downie's Slaughter -- 15. Dressing the Workhouse Corpse -- 16. Drugged on a Train -- 17. The Eagle and the Baby -- 18. Egg Ring -- 19. Familiar Enemies -- 20. Fish Ring -- 21. The Galvanic Convict -- 22. The Ghost in Search of Help -- 23. Ghost Wager -- 24. Ghostly Donation -- 25. Hands in the Muff -- 26. Harem Prisoner -- 27. Hero Survives -- 28. Hollow Tree Death -- 29. Human Sausages -- 30. I Lost the Ring Here -- 31. I'm Jack the Ripper! -- 32. Immured Lovers -- 33. The Injured Garotter -- 34. Jolting the Coffin -- 35. The Judge and the Foreman -- 36. The Lady and the Ring -- 37. The Lawyer and the Poisoned Cakes -- 38. The Long Pack -- 39. Message in a Hat -- 40. A Million Postage Stamps -- 41. The Mistletoe Bride -- 42. A Modern Jonah! -- 43. Nail in the Coffin -- 44. The Nail in the Skull -- 45. The Omnibus Driver's Holiday -- 46. One Little Piggy -- 47. Paying for His Burial -- 48. The Pickpocket's Ring -- 49. Poison Duel -- 50. Prayers and the Thief -- 51. The Red Hand! -- 52. The Returned Watch -- 53. Selling Sovereigns -- 54. Sewer Monsters -- 55. She's My Daughter? -- 56. Shooting at a Ghost -- 57. The Shoplifter's Dilemma -- 58. The Skeletons That Eloped -- 59. The Spanish Prisoner -- 60. The Suicide Club -- 61. Swallowed Up -- 62. The Tell-Tale Eye -- 63. Tick Tock -- 64. There's Gold in Those Sewers -- 65. Tunnel Kissing -- 66. The Vanishing Lady -- 67. Watch the Clock -- 68. Wild Thing |
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| Beschreibung: | xl, 227 Seiten Illustrationen, Porträts |
| ISBN: | 9781496839466 978-1-4968-3946-6 9781496839473 978-1-4968-3947-3 |