Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s

by Nicholas Daly

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This book studies high and low culture in the years before the Reform Act of 1867, which vastly increased the number of voters in Victorian Britain. As many commentators worried about the political consequences of this 'Leap in the Dark', authors and artists began to re-evaluate their own role in a democratic society that was also becoming more urban and more anonymous. While some fantasized about ways of capturing and holding the attention of the...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1107630207

ISBN13:9781107630208

Release Date:November 2013

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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