Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Society

Informationen zum Autor Sue Zemka is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Klappentext Examines the human fascination with sudden events, such as shocks, surprises, love, gods, ghosts, accidents, explosions and revelations. Zusammenfassung Examines the ways in which nineteenth-century England! under the influence of industrializing forces and increased precision in assessing the passing of time! began to attach new importance to moments! and how writers introduced into major works of fiction incidents and events of great significance compressed into small units of time. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A brief history of the moment; 2. The economic mediation of time; 3. Pie'd: the moment in mid-Victorian working-class fiction; 4. Dickens' peripatetic novels; 5. Adam Bede and the redemption of time; 6. Daniel Deronda: Eliot's anti-epiphanic novel; 7. Panic in Lord Jim; Conclusion: lost duration.

Product details

• Authors: Sue Zemka, Sue (University of Colorado Boulder) Zemka, ZEMKA SUE
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.11.2011
• EAN: 9781107007420
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00742-0
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies