Victorian time : technologies, standardizations, catastrophes /
"Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes" is a collection of essays that reflect on how the literature of the Victorian era engaged with new ways of thinking about time. These essays examine how Victorian fiction registers the psychological adjustment involved in keepi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
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| Summary: | "Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes" is a collection of essays that reflect on how the literature of the Victorian era engaged with new ways of thinking about time. These essays examine how Victorian fiction registers the psychological adjustment involved in keeping pace with industrial time as time-saving technologies aimed at making economic life more efficient, signalling the dawn of a new age of accelerated time. Examining canonical realist novels, popular literature and science fiction, these essays reveal an often ambivalent and complex response to the onset of 'industrial time' and the birth of a modern time-consciousness. Documenting the era's literary responses to the impact and rate of industrial progress and the potentialities of technology these essays trace the Victorians' radical shift in time perception from industrial novels at the onset of industrialization through to fin de siecle narratives of dystopia and apocalypse. |
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| Physical Description: | 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-207) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1137007974 9781137007971 |