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Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes
T. Ferguson (Ed.)
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Description for Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes
Hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Ferguson, Trish. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Condition
New
Weight
413g
Number of Pages
219
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137007971
SKU
V9781137007971
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99-15
About T. Ferguson (Ed.)
AILISE BULFIN Doctoral Candidate, Ireland JANE SUZANNE CARROLL School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland DARAGH DOWNES School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland DARRYL JONES Senior Lecturer, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland JARLATH KILLEEN Lecturer, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland MILES LINK Doctoral Candidate, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland JENNY MCDONNELL Lecturer, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and ... Read more
Reviews for Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes
"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 ... Read more