John Jervis is Research Fellow in Cultural Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He is the author of Exploring the Modern: Patterns of Western Culture and Civilization (1998), Transgressing the Modern: Explorations in the Western Experience of Otherness (2000) and (as co-editor, with Jo Collins) Uncanny Modernity: Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties (2008).

By inviting us to think about modern experience as both sensation and sensational John Jervis has written a book of wide-ranging importance. Sensational Subjects is a scintillating read.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsGuest Preface1. Introduction 2. Sensation and Sensationalism3. Sensational Processes4. The Aesthetics of Sensation5. The Distraction of the Modern6. Cinematic Sensation: the Sublime and the Spectacle7. Sensational Affect8. The Melodrama of the ModernNotesIndex

John Jervis is Research Fellow in Cultural Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He is the author of Exploring the Modern: Patterns of Western Culture and Civilization (1998), Transgressing the Modern: Explorations in the Western Experience of Otherness (2000) and (as co-editor, with Jo Collins) Uncanny Modernity: Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties (2008).

By inviting us to think about modern experience as both sensation and sensational John Jervis has written a book of wide-ranging importance. Sensational Subjects is a scintillating read.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsGuest Preface1. Introduction 2. Sensation and Sensationalism3. Sensational Processes4. The Aesthetics of Sensation5. The Distraction of the Modern6. Cinematic Sensation: the Sublime and the Spectacle7. Sensational Affect8. The Melodrama of the ModernNotesIndex