A Complete Contemporary History of the Cock Lane Ghost
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Page : 55 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 1762
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Page : 55 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 1762
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Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Fiction
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Author : Paul Chambers
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 9780750938693
Presents the true story of a series of events that took place in London in the 1760s. This book brings to life the story of the Cock Lane ghost - a scandal whose effect on society was such that the term Cock Lane was still synonymous with folly, superstition and corruption 150 years later. It is about a couple that lodged in Cock Lane.
Author : Trevor H. Hall
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Page : 87 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Ghosts
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 1820
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Author : Douglas Grant
Publisher : London : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 27,44 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Ghosts
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Author : John Dean
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Page : 33 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 1804
Category : Folklore
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Author : E. J. Clery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 19,44 MB
Release : 1995-02-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052145316X
A genre of supernatural fiction was among the more improbable products of the Age of Enlightenment. This book charts the troubled entry of the supernatural into fiction, and questions the historical reasons for its growing popularity in the late eighteenth century. Beginning with the notorious case of the Cock Lane ghost, a performing poltergeist who became a major attraction in London in 1762, and with Garrick's spellbinding and paradigmatic performance as the ghost-seeing Hamlet, it moves on to look at the Gothic novels of Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, M. G. Lewis, and others, in unexpected new lights. The central thesis concerns the connection between fictions of the supernatural and the growth of consumerism: not only are ghost stories successful commodities in the rapidly commercialising book market, they are also considered here as reflections on the disruptive effects of this socio-economic transformation.
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Page : 264 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Ghosts
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The edition benefits from full scholarly apparatus, including a general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index in the final volume. The set is broadly interdisciplinary and will appeal to those researching Social and Cultural History, History of Science, History of Religion, Literature and History of the Supernatural, as well as Early-Modern, Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century History. It includes rare sources not available on ECCO, EBBO or Google Books. It takes a chronologically broad view of the history of the supernatural, from the Reformation to the twentieth century. The new editorial material includes a general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index in the final volume. Each facsimile page is digitally cleaned and enhanced, significantly improving on the quality and legibility of the original
Author : Andrew Andrew Lang
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Page : 176 pages
File Size : 20,1 MB
Release : 2020-07-27
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Written by folklorist Andrew Lang, this 1894 publication examines the ambivalent relationship the living have attempted to forge with the dead throughout history. Nicknamed 'the Wizard of St Andrews', this prolific polymath also worked as an anthropologist, classicist, historian, poet, mythologist, essayist and journalist, producing over a hundred publications in his lifetime. Largely ignored by scholarship, this book suggests expanding the study of folklore to include contemporary narratives of supernatural events. Taking its title from the legends of the notorious Cock Lane ghost, the work considers the survival of ancient beliefs such as hauntings, clairvoyance, and other phenomena believed to transcend the laws of nature, and how such beliefs have persisted through great social upheaval and change. It includes chapters on savage and ancient spiritualism, comparative psychical research, haunted houses, second sight, crystal gazing, and Presbyterian ghost hunters, among others.