
By Alberto Gabriele
This e-book maps out the temporal and geographic coordinates of the trope of sensationalism within the lengthy 19th century via a comparative technique. not just juxtaposing various geographical parts (Europe, Asia and Oceania), this quantity additionally disperses its heritage over a longue durée, permitting readers to understand the hidden and sometimes unacknowledged continuities all through a interval that's usually diminished to the confines of the nationwide disciplines of literature, artwork, and cultural reports. offering quite a lot of methodological methods from the fields of literary experiences, artwork historical past, sociology of literature, and visible tradition, this assortment bargains crucial examples of the relation among literature and several media. subject matters comprise the rhetorical tropes of pop culture, the cloth tradition of garments, the lived event of functionality as a sub-text of literature and portray, and the redefinition of spatiality and temporality in conception, paintings, and
literature.