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Victorian Time - Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes

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Zusatztext "Victorian Time provides a compelling! informative! and thorough study of Victorian literature in an age of rapid temporal change! and it is attentive to temporality across a range of topics that include media! science! technology! and colonialism. Ambitious in scope and precise in detail! this collection is a valuable contribution to scholarship on Victorian time in all of its multiplicity and complication." - Victorian Periodicals Review Informationen zum Autor AILISE BULFIN Doctoral Candidate, Ireland JANE SUZANNE CARROLL School of English, Trinity College Dublin, IrelandDARAGH DOWNES School of English, Trinity College Dublin, IrelandDARRYL JONES Senior Lecturer, Trinity College Dublin, IrelandJARLATH KILLEEN Lecturer, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland MILES LINK Doctoral Candidate, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland JENNY MCDONNELL Lecturer, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, IrelandBRIAN H. MURRAY Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University, UK Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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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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"Victorian Time provides a compelling, informative, and thorough study of Victorian literature in an age of rapid temporal change, and it is attentive to temporality across a range of topics that include media, science, technology, and colonialism. Ambitious in scope and precise in detail, this collection is a valuable contribution to scholarship on Victorian time in all of its multiplicity and complication." - Victorian Periodicals Review

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