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  • Paperback: 330 pages
  • Publisher: Anthem Press; First Edition, First edition (4 Oct 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 184331150X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1843311508
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The Sunday Times, March 23, 2003

'an enthralling book... Diamond tackles his theme with verve and skill.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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'This enthralling book shows that the Victorians revelled in political and sexual scandals, murder reports, and the antics of royalty, the upper classes and celebrities. Diamond tackles his theme with verve and skill.' —'Sunday Times'



'Entertaining… the newspapers were offering a glimpse into another kind of world, an assertion that people living not very far away from the reader had a very different, and probably more exciting, lifestyle.' —'Guardian'



'This is a fun book. The reader is constantly thinking , "Ah that's what it was all about…" The book is well illustrated with the sort of ephemera of the period that is now so sought after, and there are many quotes from the music hall balladeers who were quick to latch on to each and every sensation as soon as it became hot news.' —'Bookdealer'

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A Very Good Read 4 Feb 2009
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I loved this book from the first page to the last. A fascinating book of tales of the dark side of Victorian times. It was well written and has inspired me to find out more social history from the 19th century.
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Popular culture in VIctorian times 29 Nov 2004
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As in our own day, with the press's prolific growth in Victorian times, it turned to the infinite phenomena of popular culture to sustain itself. And as in our own day, this was tied in with the curiosity and voyeurism of the public for sensationalistic stories about crimes, celebrities, politicians, royalty and other public figures, including their scandalous sexual improprieties. Such stories found their way into public entertainment as well, primarily the stage. Diamond does not so much critique the Victorian press and stage, but goes into the cultural milieu for the stories and describes how they were treated in the press and in some cases on stage. In doing so, he brings the perspective of contemporary media studies and cultural studies to his varied subjects. "Dickens' 'Oliver Twist'...would have been called a 'sensational novel', had the term existed then." If the names of the persons in the stories and their dates were changed, one would hardly be able to distinguish them from ones found in today's media. Diamond abundantly evidences that the public and the media it supported in the supposed straight-laced English Victorian culture was not essentially different from today's.
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