Abstract
Mapping the temporal and geographic coordinates of the trope of sensationalism in the long, global nineteenth century helps to reorient the temporal coordinates of the history of industrial modernity and to identify a transhistorical and transnational continuum in its manifestations. Such a continuum closely links modernist experimentations with the highlighting of materiality and the engagement with fragmentation and disruptive sensations in the course of the long nineteenth century, from the experience of urban space to the performance of the dislocation of spatiotemporal coordinates in popular culture. While the “Global Nineteenth Century” approach of the subtitle dispenses with an impossible encyclopedic thoroughness, it nonetheless aims to recognize the unavoidable necessity to incorporate such a global perspective in contemporary research.
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Notes
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See also Alberto Gabriele (2009).
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See James Chandler, xvii. For a thorough investigation of the relation between economic advancements and the theories of sentiment see Pocock, J.G.A., Virtue, Commerce and History.
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See Alberto Gabriele (2008).
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See Trotter’s Nervous Temperament, qtd. by John Brewer in “Sentiment and Sensibility,” in The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature, p. 26.
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For a productive overview of the question of place in colonial and postcolonial studies see the introduction (Chap. 1) and the conclusion (Chap. 11) of (Dis)Placing Empire by Lindsay J Proudfoot and Michael M Roche.
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For a similar approach to the culture of modernity that traces the self-reflexivity of earlier popular forms of entertainment that constitute an objective correlative of a reorganization of epistemic models, see Alberto Gabriele, The Emergence of Precinema: Print Culture and the Optical Toy of the Literary Imagination (forthcoming).
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Gabriele, A. (2017). Introduction: Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity: Transnational Currents, Intermedial Trajectories—A Global Nineteenth-Century Approach. In: Gabriele, A. (eds) Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56148-0_1
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