Nicholas Daly

Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s

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Produktbeschreibung

An account of literature and culture in the 1860s, examining popular and elite material prior to the 1867 Reform Act.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780521760225
• ISBN-10: 0521760224
• Artikelnr.: 28108825

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Daly is Chair in Modern English and American Literature, School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin.

Inhaltsangabe

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.