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Post by dem bones on May 26, 2021 9:20:53 GMT
Not an anthology, wasn't sure where to post, so this section will have to do. Michael Diamond - Victorian Sensation: Or the Spectacular, the Shocking and the Scandalous in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Anthem Press, 2003) Introduction
Royalty Political Movements Religion And Morality Sex Scandal Murder The 'Sensation Novel' The 'Sensation Drama' Stars Of Entertainment Afterword
Chronology Of The Main Events Mentioned Notes IndexBlurb: The extraordinary phenomenon of 'sensation' characterized the Victorian age. The nineteenth century saw an explosion in printed media, as newspapers became cheap, nationally distributed and easily accessible to all classes.
Drawing on a wealth of primary material, Michael Diamond explores the stories that impacted on Victorian society through the eyes of the contemporary media. In revealing the pervasiveness of sensation, Diamond sheds light on the Victorian appetite for gruesome and explicit reportage on murders and sex scandals, from sensational characters such as the serial poisoner William Palmer to notorious cases such as the Cleveland Street affair, which implicated prominent politicians and royalty. At the same time celebrated figures from Charles Dickens to Jumbo the Elephant are viewed in the context of the music halls and popular press that both documented and provoked contemporary reaction.
The reporting of sensations in a manner designed to attract the widest possible audience and maximize sales dramatically shaped the relationship between the media and the public. Michael Diamond's passionate analysis of the period, from political sleaze and scandal to West End hits and the 'feel-good' factor, demonstrates how the reporting methods of today's popular media have their origins in the Victorian press. By turns amusing, poignant and tragic, Victorian Sensation shows that the spectacular, the shocking and the scandalous were as integral a part of society in the nineteenth century as they are today. Did the heroic man swinging on a tree branch rescue the lady? I've got a horrible feeling, as it's sensational, the bandit kills them both. Edited to say it looks familiar. Could it be from a novel, or play? Edited again: Do you think, as he has a shovel, that he has been hired to kill and bury her? Alas, no source provided for the illustration, just confirmation that is from the author's private collection. It looks very Penny Dreadful, though most likely isn't. I'll go with shovel-guy as assassin hired by evil guardian bent on getting his grasping Asimov hands on the heroine's inheritance. To date, have only read the chapter on the Sensation Novel, good stuff featuring, among others, the enduring likes of The Woman in white, Lady Audley's Secret ("You have conquered ā A MADWOMAN!"), and East Lynn alongside crusading pulp hack G. W. M. Reynolds' The Mysteries of London and The Mysteries of the Court, "the arch lecher of the series is the Prince of Wales, later George IV," Charles Reade's Hard Cash and Never Too Late To Mend, the basis for the stage-play and movie of that name starring Tod Slaughter, and Tom Taylor's The Ticket of Leave Man. Chapter also features much moaning from Mrs. Oliphant who didn't like such populist garbage one tiny bit. Will have a go at the Sensational Drama next. Illo's are great. It's a lovely looking package.
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Post by Dr Strange on May 26, 2021 11:39:30 GMT
Did the heroic man swinging on a tree branch rescue the lady? I've got a horrible feeling, as it's sensational, the bandit kills them both. Edited to say it looks familiar. Could it be from a novel, or play? Edited again: Do you think, as he has a shovel, that he has been hired to kill and bury her? I'll go with shovel-guy as assassin hired by evil guardian bent on getting his grasping Asimov hands on the heroine's inheritance. The landscape and the building at the top of the cliff makes me wonder if the setting might be something like a Cornish tin mine, and the guy with the shovel is a crazed miner, possibly driven mad because the heroine has rejected him. I suspect the hero swinging in on the branch will get there just in time.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 26, 2021 12:19:03 GMT
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 26, 2021 12:38:36 GMT
Will have a go at the Sensational Drama next. Illo's are great. It's a lovely looking package.
"Monk" Lewis wrote a very popular Gothic drama, which was probably an ancestor of the melodrama, called The Castle Spectre. When you start the section on sensational Drama, can you tell me if it is mentioned there please.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 26, 2021 12:42:52 GMT
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Post by Swampirella on May 26, 2021 13:20:06 GMT
You can listen to 1:25min of it (on fiddle) here. Not sure if the scratchiness was intentional....
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Post by Dr Strange on May 26, 2021 14:22:43 GMT
I think I've found it - it's an illustration (probably a theatre poster) for a play called "Peep O'Day, or Savourneen Dheelish" written by Edmund Falconer (aka O'Rourke) in the 1860s, and based on stories from a series of "Tales of the O'Hara Family" by John & Michael Banim published in the 1820s. According to wikipedia, "it contained a scene in which the heroine is saved from live burial". There's bits and pieces about the play and Falconer scattered about the net, but the upshot seems to be that the play was hugely successful in its time but Falconer never quite managed to match it again, and both he and the play gradually sank into obscurity.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 26, 2021 14:23:42 GMT
Not an anthology, wasn't sure where to post, so this section will have to do. Michael Diamond - Victorian Sensation: Or the Spectacular, the Shocking and the Scandalous in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Anthem Press, 2003)
It's fun to try to guess these sort of things, but I'm nearly always wrong when I do.There must be some story behind it you would think.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 26, 2021 14:29:17 GMT
I think I've found it - it's an illustration (probably a theatre poster) for a play called "Peep O'Day, or Savourneen Dheelish" written by Edmund Falconer (aka O'Rourke) in the 1860s, and based on stories from a series of "Tales of the O'Hara Family" by John & Michael Banim published in the 1820s. According to wikipedia, "it contained a scene in which the heroine is saved from live burial". There's bits and pieces about the play and Falconer scattered about the net, but the upshot seems to be that the play was hugely successful in its time but Falconer never quite managed to match it again, and both he and the play gradually sank into obscurity. Well done Doctor! The Victorians loved this sort of thing didn't they.
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Post by dem bones on May 26, 2021 17:21:06 GMT
I think I've found it - it's an illustration (probably a theatre poster) for a play called "Peep O'Day, or Savourneen Dheelish" written by Edmund Falconer (aka O'Rourke) in the 1860s, and based on stories from a series of "Tales of the O'Hara Family" by John & Michael Banim published in the 1820s. According to wikipedia, "it contained a scene in which the heroine is saved from live burial". There's bits and pieces about the play and Falconer scattered about the net, but the upshot seems to be that the play was hugely successful in its time but Falconer never quite managed to match it again, and both he and the play gradually sank into obscurity. Well done Doctor! The Victorians loved this sort of thing didn't they. These are the best threads, a proper team effort. From chapter 7, The "Sensation Drama"
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Post by dem bones on May 26, 2021 17:27:35 GMT
"Monk" Lewis wrote a very popular Gothic drama, which was probably an ancestor of the melodrama, called The Castle Spectre. When you start the section on sensational Drama, can you tell me if it is mentioned there please. No The Castle Spectre, or, indeed Monk Lewis in Victorian Sensation, Princess. The plays featured begin around mid-century - a dramatisation, or rather, several dramatisations of Uncle Tom's Cabin, some of which bore little resemblance to Beecher Stowe's novel, seems to have set the ball rolling - by which time The Castle Spectre had run it's race. Just in case you're unaware, a facsimile of The Castle Spectre programme - script, stage directions, costumes, the lot - is reproduced in: Stephen Wischhusen - The Hour of One: Six Gothic Melodrama's (Gordon Fraser, 1975) List of Illustrations Introduction
M. G. Lewis - The Castle Spectre Thomas Holcroft - A Tale of Mystery J. R. Planche - The Vampyre, or the Bride of the Isles H. M. Milner - Frankenstein, or the Man and the Monster Edward Fitz-Ball - The Devil's Elixir Edward Fitz-Ball - The Flying Dutchman
Index of Authors and Theatre Managers
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Post by helrunar on May 26, 2021 18:00:46 GMT
Good old Monk Lewis. Lovely illo.
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Post by Dr Strange on May 26, 2021 19:39:04 GMT
Makes you wonder how these scenes on advertising posters actually translated onto the stage. Look at this one -
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Post by dem bones on May 26, 2021 20:44:07 GMT
I'm sure this would've been worth seeing, too. The No Man's land poster art is beautiful.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 26, 2021 21:01:45 GMT
Makes you wonder how these scenes on advertising posters actually translated onto the stage. Look at this one - This bit is funny: A WOMAN SAVES A WOMAN I wonder how the Victorian lady hid her modesty while doing it.
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