Nel 1886 il chirurgo Frederick Treves sottrae John Merrick, affetto da una grave malattia che ne deforma il corpo, al circuito dei freak show dove si esibisce come uomo elefante, e lo interna presso il London ...

Starting from Victor Turner’s definitions of cultural performance and liminoid phenomena, the essay aims to analyse Wilkie Collins’s third novel, Hide and Seek (1854), which seems to be a sort of survey of the pastimes ...

At the outbreak of the First World War, Charles Masterman, head of the War Propaganda Bureau, invited a number of leading British writers to support the national cause with their works. The essay analyses some of the ...