Victorian time : technologies, standardizations, catastrophes

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    • Ferguson, Trish

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Victorian time : technologies, standardizations, catastrophes

edited by Trish Ferguson

(Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-207) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

  • 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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