Strange Victoriana : tales of the curious, the weird and the uncanny from our Victorians ancestors
Bondeson, Jan2016
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Jan Bondeson 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. 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.
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Stroud : Amberley, 2016.
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352 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781445658858 (hbk)1445658852 (hbk)9781445658865 (ebook)
Dewey class:
941.081 BON941.081
LC class:
DA533
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English
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BRN:
307684