Sensation and modernity in the 1860s
By: Nicholas Daly.
Series: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture -- 70
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780521760225
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Sensationalism in literature; Social change -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Art and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain; Modernism (Art) -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The woman in white and the crowd; title: The many lives of the Colleen Bawn: pastoral spectacle; title: The white girl: aestheticism as mesmerism; title: Black and white in the 1860s; title: The chromolithographers of modern life.