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Forms of Time, Newton to Austen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Molesworth, Jesse.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Time in literature.
- English fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas: the separation of time from its measure, or what Newton described as the distinction between "absolute" and "relative" time.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Clarissa's "Meantime"
- One. Newton's Moments and the Time of the Cosmos
- Two. Clarissa and the "Great Forgetting"
- Three. Hogarth and the Time of the Calendar
- Four. Serial Time, Clock, Calendar, Tristram
- Five. Gothic Time, Sacred Time
- Conclusion: Austen's Moments
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-5036-4638-6
- 9781503646384
- OCLC:
- 1581945774
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