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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 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

  • 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

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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

  • 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 Cathedral

    by Joris-Karl Huysmans ...
    Translated by Clara Bell ...
    Joris-Karl Huysmans was a famous French writer known for his large vocabulary, and wit. Huysmans most famous novel was Against the Grain. This edition of The Cathedral includes a table of contents. ... Read more

    $2.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cathedral

    by Joris-Karl Huysmans ...
    Translated by Clara Bell ...
    The Cathedral (French: La Cathédrale) is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans.It is the third of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author. He had already featured the character of Durtal in Là-bas and En route, which recounted his conversion to Catholicism.La Cathédrale continues the story. After his retreat at a Trappist monastery, ... Read more

    $1.35 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

  • The Cathedral

    by Joris-Karl Huysmans ...
    After the Satanic debaucheries of Là -bas (1891) and the sensual battles of En Route (1895), comes the cloistered calm of The Cathedral (1898). In this long, reflective novel, Huysmans� alter-ego, Durtal, sets out to explore the mystic symbolism embodied in one of the greatest gothic edifices in France, Chartres cathedral. Written at the time of the Dreyfus Affair, a political scandal that ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Là-bas

    by Joris-Karl Huysmans ...
    "Là-bas," which translates to "Down There" or "The Damned," delves into themes of decadence, Satanism, and religious and philosophical introspection. The novel follows the protagonist, Durtal, a writer who becomes increasingly fascinated by the occult and the sinister allure of the decadent underworld.As Durtal immerses himself in his research, he encounters various characters involved in occult ... Read more

    $0.97 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Against the Grain

    by J.-k. Huysmans ...
    The Floressas Des Esseintes, to judge by the various portraits preserved in the Château de Lourps, had originally been a family of stalwart troopers and stern cavalry men. Closely arrayed, side by side, in the old frames which their broad shoulders filled, they startled one with the fixed gaze of their eyes, their fierce moustaches and the chests whose deep curves filled the enormous shells of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

    Edited by Francis O'Gorman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    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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