Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s

by Nicholas Daly

Book Overview

This is a study of 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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521760224
• ISBN13: 9780521760225
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"