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Victorian Time : Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes / edited by T. Ferguson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture, 2634-6508
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Modern--19th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- European literature.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- Nineteenth-Century Literature.
- European Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Local Subjects:
- Nineteenth-Century Literature.
- European Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2013.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The best of time, the worst of time : temporal consciousness in Dickens / Daragh Downes
- Emptying time in Anthony Trollope's The warden / Jarlath Killeen
- Hardy's Wessex and the birth of industrial subjectivity / Trish Ferguson
- 'You are too slow' : Jules Verne's Around the world in 80 days / Jane Suzanne Carroll
- Brave new worlds : Samuel Butler's Erewhon, settler colonialism and New Zealand Mean Time / Jenny McDonnell
- 'Primitive man' and media time in H.M. Stanley's Through the Dark Continent / Brian H. Murray
- 'The honest application of the obvious' : the scientific futurity of H.G. Wells / Miles Link
- 'The end of time' : M.P. Shiel and the 'apocalyptic imaginary' / Ailise Bulfin
- 'Gone into mourning
- for the death of the Sun' : Victorians at the end of time / Darryl Jones.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349435425
- 1349435422
- 9781137007988
- 1137007982
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