Introduction: seeing how the Victorians saw 1. Terms of art: reading the Dickensian gallery 2. The difficulty of historical work in the nineteenth-century museum and the Thackeray novel 3. 'Truly it was astonishing': the exhibition, the sensation novel, and the culture of the spectacular 4. 'The interesting subject of the art of the future': Thomas Hardy and the historicity of taste Conclusion: rethinking how we see the Victorians Bibliography.
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