Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s
«'… scholars will welcome Daly's work which opens up fields of thought and investigation in ways that usefully complicate the preconceptions and misconceptions surrounding the Victorian era.' http://res.oxfordjournals.org»
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. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cambridge University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781107630208
- Utgivelsesår
- 2013
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«'… scholars will welcome Daly's work which opens up fields of thought and investigation in ways that usefully complicate the preconceptions and misconceptions surrounding the Victorian era.' http://res.oxfordjournals.org»