Victorian Sensation: Or, the Spectacular, the Shocking and the Scandalous in Nineteenth-Century Britain.(Book Review)

Michael Diamond. Victorian Sensation: Or, the Spectacular, the Shocking and the Scandalous in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Herndon, Va.: Stylus Publishing. 2003. Pp. 328. $35.00. ISBN 1-84331-076-7.

In the 1928 novel, Point Counter Point, by Aldous Huxley, two characters begin a dinner conversation about luck that fades into reflections on sensation. One conversant says, "Feelings have nothing to do with objective facts" to which his companion replies, "But sensations have. Science is the rationalization of sense-perceptions. Why should one class of intuitions be ...

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