Victorian time : technologies, standardizations, catastrophes
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Victorian time : technologies, standardizations, catastrophes
(Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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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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