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This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Drawing upon a rich variety of primary source material, 'The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack' provides a fascinating insight into Victorian cultures and will appeal to anyone with an interest in nineteenth-century English cultural and social history, folklore and literature

5: Urban communal formation and protestCommunal formation and boundaries; Communal protest and adaptation; Conclusion; 6: Magical memory mapping; Rereading the city: space; Rereading the city: time; Altered and alternative geographies; Conclusion; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.

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 of ports, ranging from eighteenth-century Africa to twentieth-century Australasia and Europe. The essays in this important collection explore two key themes; the nature and character of 'sailortown' culture and port-town life, and the representations of port towns that were forged both within and beyond urban-maritime communities. The book's exploration of port town identities and cultures, and its use of a rich array of methodological approaches and cultural artefacts, will make it of great interest to both urban and maritime historians. It also represents a major contribution to the emerging, interdisciplinary field of coastal studies