Buch, Englisch, 219 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 3943 g
Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes
Buch, Englisch, 219 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 3943 g
Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
ISBN: 978-1-137-00797-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK
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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Research
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
Weitere Infos & Material
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
