Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Daly is Chair in Modern English and American Literature, School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin. Klappentext An account of literature and culture in the 1860s, examining popular and elite material prior to the 1867 Reform Act. Zusammenfassung Offers an account of high and low literature and culture in the years leading up to the 1867 Reform Act. It argues that writers and artists re-evaluated their role as Britain moved towards democracy. Some embraced the crowd; some tried to escape from it; others tried to manipulate it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The woman in white and the crowd; 2. The many lives of the Colleen Bawn: pastoral spectacle; 3. The white girl: aestheticism as mesmerism; 4. Black and white in the 1860s; 5. The chromolithographers of modern life; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Daly, Nicholas (University College Dublin) Daly
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.10.2009
• EAN: 9780521760225
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76022-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies