Titlebook: Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity; A Global Nineteenth- Alberto Gabriele Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author

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Urban Perils and the Sensational Bicycle: Text-Image Dynamics in the Victorian Magazine Cycling, 189icycle, one of the markers of modernity, became a cultural phenomenon, allowing the Victorians, and especially the middle class, cheap mobility like they never had before. Alongside news of the trade, sport and pastime of bicycling, the periodical published sensational short stories and stories in i

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Destructive Re-Creations: Spectacles of Urban Destruction in Turn-of-the-Century USAheir seemingly infinite plasticity and potential. Yet along with the admiration for the cities dazzling sights came an uncanny insistence on their vulnerability. Sensational accounts of fires, explosions, earthquakes, and floods rapidly made their way into the representations of the modern city: in

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The Whole Thing (and Other Things): From Panorama to Attraction in Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat,” very different kind of visual turn: what Tom Gunning terms “the cinema of attractions.” Crane’s work is read as an allegory of the machine age, when new audiences were consuming a cinematic culture of incessant motion, which blurred the line between spectator and participant. Drawing on early panora

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Urban Metaphysics versus Metropolitan Dynamisms: The Italian Vision Before the First World War quite differently from his German contemporaries Kirchner and Grosz, the centre point for a reflection on a new aesthetics. De Chirico composes his cityscapes through a language only seemingly derived from antiquity, but in fact hiding within its forms, like an optical illusion, the potential for a

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Spatiality and Temporality in Benjamin and Adornoaphorisms intertwine exterior and interior into a continual surface of interiority abruptly bursting forth as a site of “reception,” for it is in their . manifestation that these images are supposed to conjure up the “now of recognizability.” Benjamin’s spatiotemporal coordinates are intersected in

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The Sensibilities of Semicolonial Shanghai: A Phenomenological Study of the Short Stories by Liu Na’short stories in reference to the philosophy of perceptual experience and the literary history of the texts. It argues that literature written with a focus on sensational responses is a genre resistant to representation. The more exhaustively the city is portrayed with an emphasis on sensations, the