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 Hospital, g ...

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 short ...