Sensation


The Woman in White
Lady Audley's Secret
The Moonstone
East Lynne
Armadale
Aurora Floyd
Uncle Silas
Great Expectations
The Law and the Lady
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
No Name
Between Politics and Ethics: Toward a Vocative History of English Studies
Refiguring Speech: Late Victorian Fictions of Empire and the Poetics of Talk
Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century
Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good: From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond
Secrets Never Lie by R.R. McDonaldHanging the Peachtree Bandit by Tom Hughes"Rich Georgian Strangely Shot" by Tom HughesWicked Atlanta by Laurel-Ann DooleyThe Temple Bombing by Melissa Fay Greene
Atlanta History and True Crime
8 books — 3 voters
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth BraddonThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsGreat Expectations by Charles DickensThe Moonstone by Wilkie CollinsEast Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood
Victorian Sensation Novels
24 books — 19 voters

Dracula by Bram StokerThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonInfidel by Ayaan Hirsi AliThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Battle Hymn
30 books — 7 voters

Steven Kotler
The true challenge is how you continue doing it, after you’ve ridden the biggest wave, crossed the longest distance. You set up challenges that are more than what you ever did before. And by getting through it, you get the sensation you’ve completed something. And if it’s dangerous, then other things that scare you, the experience will strengthen you for those situations.
Steven Kotler, The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

J.G. Ballard
Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within sex as elsewhere and the sense that the perversions are valuable precisely because they provide a readily accessible anthology of exploratory techniques. ...more
J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition

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