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oapen-20.500.12657-485402021-05-12T00:50:29Z Chapter News from the Invisible World Barry, Jonathan publishing; history; supernatural bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLH Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 bic Book Industry Communication::Y Children's, Teenage & educational::YN Children's / Teenage: general non-fiction::YNX Mysteries, the supernatural, monsters & mythological beings (Children’s/Teenage) This chapter explores the transmission of tales of the supernatural during the very long eighteenth century (between c.1660 and c.1832). A genre of publications on this subject which have not been studied are those anthologies of supposedly true stories, usually relating to named people and places and sometimes dated, often each numbered separately, with relatively little discussion of their authenticity or significance, beyond perhaps a brief preface defending the reality of the world of spirits. A series of entrepreneurial publishers, mostly operating from Paternoster Row in London, experimented with anthologising these stories in varied combinations. Any attempt to analyse the stories must begin by unravelling the publishing history by which they were transmitted and (not fully studied here) modified and retold, as well as re-interpreted. 2021-05-11T11:48:20Z 2021-05-11T11:48:20Z 2017 chapter 9783319637839 9783319876344 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48540 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International Bookshelf_NBK513557.pdf Springer Nature Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present 10.1007/978-3-319-63784-6_9 10.1007/978-3-319-63784-6_9 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 4f9c7019-8556-4917-bb85-180019a3fe07 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9783319637839 9783319876344 Wellcome 35 Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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This chapter explores the transmission of tales of the supernatural during the very long eighteenth century (between c.1660 and c.1832). A genre of publications on this subject which have not been studied are those anthologies of supposedly true stories, usually relating to named people and places and sometimes dated, often each numbered separately, with relatively little discussion of their authenticity or significance, beyond perhaps a brief preface defending the reality of the world of spirits. A series of entrepreneurial publishers, mostly operating from Paternoster Row in London, experimented with anthologising these stories in varied combinations. Any attempt to analyse the stories must begin by unravelling the publishing history by which they were transmitted and (not fully studied here) modified and retold, as well as re-interpreted.
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