Book review : Victorian sensation : or the spectacular, the shocking and the scandalous in nineteenth-century Britain; Nineteenth-century media and the construction of identities; Queen Victoria : first media monarch

This article reviews the books Victorian Sensation: or the Spectacular, the Shocking and the Scandalous in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Michael Diamond, Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities edited by Laurel Brake, Bill Bell and David Finkelstein, and Queen Victoria: First Media Monarch (Oxford: Oxford University Press written by John Plunkett