T. Ferguson
Victorian Time
Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes
Gebonden Engels 2013 9781137007971Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
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Victorian Time examines how literature of the era registers the psychological impact of the onset of a modern, industrialized experience of time as time-saving technologies, such as steam-powered machinery, aimed at making economic life more efficient, signalling the dawn of a new age of accelerated time.
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ISBN13:9781137007971
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Hoofdrubriek:Woordenboeken en taal, Woordenboeken en taal
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Inhoudsopgave
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; T.Ferguson The Best of Time, The Worst of Time: Temporal Consciousness in Dickens; D.Downes Emptying Time in Anthony Trollope's The Warden ; K.Killeen Hardy's Wessex and the Birth of Industrial Subjectivity; T.Ferguson 'You Are Too Slow': Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days ; J.S.Carroll 'Brave New Worlds': Samuel Butler's Erewhon, Settler Colonialism and New Zealand Mean Time; J.McDonnell 'Primitive Man' and Media Time in H.M. Stanley's Through the Dark Continent ; B.H.Murray 'The Honest Application of the Obvious': The Scientific Futurity of H.G.Wells; M.Link 'The End of Time': M.P. Shiel and the 'Apocalyptic Imaginary'; A. Bulfin 'Gone Into Mourning...For the Death of the Sun': Victorians at the End of Time; D.Jones Bibliography Index
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