A confrontation with death, even if just in thoughts, always generates uneasiness, for death, as described by American existential psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom, is “a primordial source of anxiety and the primary source of psychopathology”. Most...

In his novel Oliver Twist, Charles Dicken presents the city – more specifically, London – as a place which entraps the people who exist within it, both physically and socially. This is particularly noticeable when compared to the text’s depiction...

The criminal underworld was an elaborate network in Old London introducing new crime stories and entertainment such as Newgate Calendars. The Calendars were nonfiction crime reports from the 18th century that always ended in a lesson for the...