Bill Angus is senior lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Massey University, New Zealand. He has published widely on early modern metadrama and the material conditions that generate it, on the artefacts of protection from evil, and on the historical roots of the mythology of popular music. His latest monograph A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture has been described as 'a rich and fascinating exploration of the symbolic potential of the uncanny points at which roads simultaneously meet and diverge, showing that whether as places for selling one's soul, burying the outcast dead, or encountering the supernatural, crossroads in the early modern imagination were charged and dangerous.'
"""Bill Angus offers a rich and fascinating exploration of the symbolic potential of the uncanny points at which roads simultaneously meet and diverge, showing that whether as places for selling one's soul, burying the outcast dead, or encountering the supernatural, crossroads in the early modern imagination were charged and dangerous.? "" -Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University"