'Victorian Sensation' sheds light on the Victorians' fascination with celebrity culture and their obsession with gruesome and explicit reportage of murders and
From political sleaze and scandal to West End hits and the 'feel-good' factor, Michael Diamond explores the media stories that gripped Victorian society, in an
Features previously unpublished material alongside famous plays This pioneering edition provides access to some of the most popular plays of the nineteenth cent
This book explores Victorian readers’ consumption of a wide array of reading matter. Established scholars and emerging researchers examine nineteenth-century
"Featuring dozens of musical examples and images of the old theatres, Music for the Melodramatic Theatre charts the progress of music in the theatre form its ea