Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s
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. Whi...more
Hardcover, 245 pages
Published
November 1st 2009
by Cambridge University Press
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