Telling Time - Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785

Preface Acknowledgments 1: Tick, Tick, Tick: Chronometric Innovation and Prose Form 2: "In The Fullness of Time": Pepys and His Predecessors 3: "With My Minute Wach in My Hand": The Diary as Time Keeper 4: "To Print My Self Out": Correspondence and Containment in the Spectator and Its Predecessors 5: Travel Writing and the Dialectic of Diurnal Form 6: Diurnal Dialectic in the Western Islands 7: Defoe and Burney: The Unmaking of the Diurnal in the Making of the NovelEpilogue Notes Index

Summary

In this text, Stuart Sherman argues that innovations in prose emerged simultaneously with the 17th-century revolution in clock technology, enabling authors to recount the new kind of time by which England was learning to live and work.

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Sherman, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Sherman Stuart
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1997
• EAN: 9780226752778
• ISBN: 978-0-226-75277-8
• No. of pages: 342
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 510 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries; England, HISTORY / Social History, SCIENCE / Time, Social & cultural history, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Manufacturing, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Other manufacturing technologies, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800, Time (chronology), time systems & standards, Clocks, Chronometers & Watches (Horology), Time (chronology), time systems and standards