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Download or read book The British Almanac written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sutton Companion to the Folklore, Myths and Customs of Britain by : Alexander Barrie
Download or read book Sutton Companion to the Folklore, Myths and Customs of Britain written by Alexander Barrie and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's rich and varied folklore, legends and beliefs provide an insight into the island's history. Every invader, refugee or settler has helped contribute some new element or twist to the complex pattern of our national heritage. This volume provides a comprehensive companion to legends and customs in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
Download or read book Scottish Ghosts written by Dane Love and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland is a land of many ghosts and spirits and every corner of the country seems to have a least one ghost; discover them for yourself in Scottish Ghosts.
Book Synopsis The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Daily Companion by :
Download or read book The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Daily Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Peter Underwood's Guide to Ghosts and Haunted Places by : Peter Underwood
Download or read book Peter Underwood's Guide to Ghosts and Haunted Places written by Peter Underwood and published by Peter Underwood. This book was released on 1996 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Underwood's Guide to Ghosts and Haunted Places is based on 50 years' expert study and investigation. The result is a unique exploration of the world go ghosts, apparitions and psychic phenomena which draws on a wealth of cases personally investigated by the author. Illustrated with photographs, this fascinating book examines the enormous variety of ghostly activity from both sides of the Atlantic and discusses all the available evidence. Included are chilling tales of numerous haunted places including castles, stately homes, churches, theatres, pubs, prisons, hospitals, battlefields, even trees and roads. There are bizarre cases of unexplained aerial phenomena and strange happenings surrounding inanimate objects. Also examined are stories of ghost animals and the extraordinary accounts of time-slips, cyclic ghosts and poltergeists. If you want to satisfy your curiosity about the subject or simply enjoy a riveting read, Peter Underwood's Guide to Ghosts and Haunted Places is the book for you.
Book Synopsis Haunted Spaces in Twenty-First Century British Nature Writing by : Anneke Lubkowitz
Download or read book Haunted Spaces in Twenty-First Century British Nature Writing written by Anneke Lubkowitz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the figure of haunting in the New Nature Writing. It begins with a historical survey of nature writing and traces how it came to represent an ideal of ‘natural’ space as empty of human history and social conflict. Building on a theoretical framework which combines insights from ecocriticism and spatial theory, the author explores the spatial dimensions of haunting and ‘hauntology’ and shows how 21st-century writers draw on a Gothic repertoire of seemingly supernatural occurrences and spectral imagery to portray ‘natural’ space as disturbed, uncanny and socially contested. Iain Sinclair and Robert Macfarlane are revealed to apply psychogeography’s interest in ‘hidden histories’ and haunted places to spaces associated with ‘wilderness’ and ‘the countryside’. Kathleen Jamie’s allusions to the Gothic are put in relation to her feminist re-writing of ‘the outdoors’, and John Burnside’s use of haunting is shown to dismantle fictions of ‘the far north’. This book provides not only a discussion of a wide range of factual and fictional narratives of the present but also an analysis of the intertextual dialogue with the Romantic tradition which enfolds in these texts.
Book Synopsis British Literature and Print Culture by : Sandro Jung
Download or read book British Literature and Print Culture written by Sandro Jung and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complexity of print culture in Britain between the seventeenth and nineteenth century is investigated in these wide-ranging articles. The essays collected here offer examinations of bibliographical matters, publishing practices, the illustration of texts in a variety of engraved media, little studied print culture genres, the critical and editorial fortunes of individual works, and the significance of the complex interrelationships that authors entertained with booksellers, publishers, and designers. They investigate how all these relationships affected the production of print commodities and how all the agents involved in the making of books contributed to the cultural literacy of readers and the formation of a canon of literary texts. Specific topics include a bibliographical study of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and its editions from its first publication to the present day; the illustrations of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and the ways in which the interpretive matrices of book illustration conditioned the afterlife and reception of Bunyan's work; the almanac and the subscription edition; publishing history, collecting, reading, and textual editing, especially of Robert Burns's poems and James Thomson's The Seasons; the "printing for the author" practice; the illustrated and material existence of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels, and the Victorian periodical, The Athenaeum. Sandro Jung is Research Professor of Early Modern British Literature and Director of the Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture at Ghent University. Contributors: Gerard Carruthers, Nathalie Collé-Bak, Marysa Demoor, Alan Downie, Peter Garside, Sandro Jung, Brian Maidment, Laura L. Runge.
Book Synopsis Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment by : Michael R. Lynn
Download or read book Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment written by Michael R. Lynn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment argues for the centrality of magical practices and ideas throughout the long eighteenth century. Although the hunt for witches in Europe declined precipitously after 1650, and the intellectual justification for natural magic came under fire by 1700, belief in magic among the general population did not come to a sudden stop. The philosophes continued to take aim at magical practices, alongside religion, as examples of superstitions that an enlightened age needed to put behind them. In addition to a continuity of beliefs and practices, the eighteenth century also saw improvement and innovation in magical ideas, the understanding of ghosts, and attitudes toward witchcraft. The volume takes a broad geographical approach and includes essays focusing on Great Britain (England and Ireland), France, Germany, and Hungary. It also takes a wide approach to the subject and includes essays on astrology, alchemy, witchcraft, cunning folk, ghosts, treasure hunters, and purveyors of magic. With a broad chronological scope that ranges from the end of the seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century, this volume is useful for undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars, and those with a general interest in magic, witchcraft, and spirits in the Enlightenment.
Book Synopsis Haunted Europe by : Evert Jan Van Leeuwen
Download or read book Haunted Europe written by Evert Jan Van Leeuwen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted Europe offers the first comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe, tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel, to the eve of Brexit, and the symbolic recalibration of the UK’s relationship to mainland Europe. By focusing on the development of the relationship between Britain and Ireland and continental Europe over more than two-hundred years, this collection marks an important departure from standard literary critical narratives, which have tended to focus on a narrow time-period and have missed continuities and discontinuities in our ongoing relationship with the mainland.
Book Synopsis The Roadmap of British Ghosts by : Ruth Roper Wylde
Download or read book The Roadmap of British Ghosts written by Ruth Roper Wylde and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third book on ghosts and the supernatural by author Ruth Roper Wylde. it covers those spooks and spectres which haunt the roads and byways of the British Isles, and includes dozens of brand new eye witness accounts gathered by the author from people up and down the country.From the expected headless highwaymen and spectral monks, to the more bizarre and inexplicable creatures seen running across our roads, to things which jump onto lorries and terrify poor drivers down remote lanes and urban streets alike - the contents are likely to make you quite wary of driving alone at night.Or for that matter, of driving with several people in the car at night, or in the broad daylight. The supernatural seems to be less picky about when it makes an appearance that you might think!
Download or read book The Publisher written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The English Civil War by : Charles J Esdaile
Download or read book The English Civil War written by Charles J Esdaile and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cavaliers and Roundheads are figures who appear in hundreds of English ghost stories. In this innovative account, Charles Esdaile argues that such tales are in reality folk memories of an episode of English history that was second only to the Black Death in terms of individual and collective suffering alike, and, further, that they reveal important truths about the way in which the conflict was represented: it is no surprise, then, to find that spectral Cavaliers are often romantic figures and revenant Roundheads grim ones full of menace. Yet, the book is no mere catalogue. On the contrary, rather than being discussed in a vacuum, the tales of haunting are rather set within a detailed regional history of the conflicts of 1642-1651 of a sort that has never yet been attempted, but is, for all that, badly needed.
Book Synopsis A Companion to the Folklore, Myths & Customs of Britain by : Marc Alexander
Download or read book A Companion to the Folklore, Myths & Customs of Britain written by Marc Alexander and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over a thousand entries, this illustrated encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide to the legends and beliefs of the British Isles.
Book Synopsis The British National Bibliography by : Arthur James Wells
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nights in Haunted Houses by : Peter Underwood
Download or read book Nights in Haunted Houses written by Peter Underwood and published by Peter Underwood. This book was released on 1994 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eerie quiet and disorientating darkness of the night have long been associated with the terror of the unknown. In the cold light of day it is all too easy for sceptics to dismiss apparently inexplicable events but in the dead of night, when faced with the evidence of their senses and those of other perfectly rational people, it is far more difficult to ignore the facts - however disturbing they may be. Peter Underwood is Britain's leading ghost hunter. For over thirty years, in his position as President and Chief Investigator of the Ghost Club of Great Britain, he was actively involved in undertaking night vigils and carrying out research into ghosts and paranormal activity in controlled, scientific conditions. In this unique volume of largely unpublished accounts of nocturnal investigations, he guides son a chilling tour of the most haunted houses in Great Britain. Among others, we encounter the headless Blue Lady and disturbing inexplicable odour of lavender of Bovey House in Devon; the happy spirits monk of Bromfield Manor, Shropshire, who chuckles with delight when noticed; and the strange disembodied voices, footsteps and unnatural coldness of Newark Park, Gloucestershire. In Nights in Haunted Houses Peter Underwood vividly records terrifying accounts of ghostly encounters in locations as diverse as a farmhouse, a church, a castle and a council house, and builds a convincing catalogue of evidence for the existence of ghosts.
Book Synopsis The International Directory of Haunted Places by : Dennis William Hauck
Download or read book The International Directory of Haunted Places written by Dennis William Hauck and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter what your destination, whether it be haunted jailhouses in Iceland, ghostly castles in Scotland or meetings with household spirits in Russia, paranormal expert Dennis William Hauck will direct you to the eeriest spots with this international guide. Hauck also provides a unique look at the variations among paranormal phenomena in different countries and cultures. Includes over 700 geographically arranged entries on haunted houses, sacred sites and other locations and is illustrated with over 90 photographs, with phone numbers, web sites and addresses.
Download or read book Public Ledger Almanacs written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: