紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: 單行本
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副題名: |
technologies, standardizations, catastrophes |
合作者: |
FergusonTrish., |
出版地: |
Basingstoke |
出版者: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
出版年: |
2013 |
面頁冊數: |
1 online resource. |
集叢名: |
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture |
標題: |
English literature - History and criticism. - 19th century - |
標題: |
Time in literature - History and criticism. - |
標題: |
Literature and society - History - Great Britain - 19th century. - |
標題: |
Industrial revolution in literature. - |
標題: |
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - |
電子資源: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137007988 |
附註: |
Description based on publisher supplied information; title not viewed. |
摘要註: |
"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. |
ISBN: |
9781137007988electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
1137007982electronic bk. |
內容註: |
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. |