Research Catalog

Title

Victorian time : technologies, standardizations, catastrophes / edited by Trish Ferguson.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Additional Authors

Ferguson, Trish.

Description

219 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"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.

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.

Subjects

• Time in literature
• English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• Industrial revolution in literature
• Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Time perception in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-207) and index.

Contents

The best of time, the worst of time : temporal consciousness in Dickens / Daragh Downes -- Emptying time in Anthony Trollope's The warden / Jarlath Killeen -- Hardy's Wessex and the birth of industrial subjectivity / Trish Ferguson -- 'You are too slow' : Jules Verne's Around the world in 80 days / Jane Suzanne Carroll -- Brave new worlds : Samuel Butler's Erewhon, settler colonialism and New Zealand Mean Time / Jenny McDonnell -- 'Primitive man' and media time in H.M. Stanley's Through the Dark Continent / Brian H. Murray -- 'The honest application of the obvious' : the scientific futurity of H.G. Wells / Miles Link -- 'The end of time' : M.P. Shiel and the 'apocalyptic imaginary' / Alise Bulfin -- 'Gone into mourning ... for the death of the Sun' : Victorians at the end of time / Darryl Jones.

Call Number

JFD 13-631

ISBN

• 1137007974
• 9781137007971

OCLC

806431392

Title

Victorian time : technologies, standardizations, catastrophes / edited by Trish Ferguson.

Imprint

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Series

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-207) and index.

Added Author

Ferguson, Trish.

Research Call Number

JFD 13-631