Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s
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2013
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-63020-8 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-63020-8 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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.
Nicholas Daly is Chair in Modern English and American Literature, School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin.
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.
Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture |
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Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 153 x 230 mm |
Gewicht | 390 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-107-63020-7 / 1107630207 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-107-63020-8 / 9781107630208 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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