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Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s (Paperback)
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Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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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 masses, others
preferred to make art and literature more exclusive, to shut out
the crowd. One path led to 'Sensation'; the other to aestheticism,
though there were also efforts to evade this opposition. This book
examines the fiction, drama, fine art, and ephemeral forms of these
years against the backdrop of Reform. Authors and artists studied
include Wilkie Collins, Dion Boucicault, Charles Dickens, James
McNeill Whistler, and the popular illustrator Alfred Concanen.
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