Victorian Sensation: Or the Shocking and the Scandalous in Nineteenth Century Britain

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Diamond, Michael. Victorian Sensation: Or the Shocking and the Scandalous in Nineteenth Century Britain. London: Anthem Press [distributed by Sylus Pub. in Sterling, Va.], 2003. 328 pp. $35.

The music halls as well as tabloids raised eyebrows and stoked the gossip factory of Victorian England in the same way that The Weekly World News, country music ballads, and TV tell-all shows, including "Hard Copy," fill emotional needs of Americans today. Indeed, Michael Diamond's book documents the psychological power of storytelling-in newspapers, songs, or books-to ground us in our culture and, ...

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