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02865aam a2200409 a 4500 001 BA81D3A2991C11E18EA509A36AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20120508094706 008 110801s2011 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2011031543 020 $a 1107007429 (hardback) 020 $a 9781107007420 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)746489181 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d SILO $d UKMGB $d YDXCP $d DEBBG $d C#P $d CDX $d XII $d BWX $d BDX $d COO $d PUL $d STF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR878.T5 $b Z46 2011 100 1 $a Zemka, Sue, $d 1958- 245 1 $a Time and the moment in Victorian literature and society / $c Sue Zemka. 260 $a Cambridge ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2011. 300 $a vii, 285 p. ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; $v 77 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p.263-278) and index. 505 0 $a A brief history of the moment -- The economic mediation of time -- Pie'd : the moment in mid-Victorian working-class fiction -- Dickens's peripatetic novels -- Adam Bede and the redemption of time -- Daniel Deronda : Eliot's anti-epiphanic novel -- Panic in Lord Jim -- Conclusion : Lost duration. 520 $a "Sudden changes, opportunities or revelations have always carried a special significance in western culture, from the Greek and later the Christian kairos to Evangelical experiences of conversion. This fascinating book explores the ways in which England, under the influence of industrialising forces and increased precision in assessing the passing of time, attached importance to moments and events that compress great significance into small units of time. Sue Zemka questions the importance that modernity invests in momentary events, from religion to aesthetics and philosophy. She argues for a strain in Victorian and early modern novels critical of the values the age invested in moments of time, and suggests that such novels also offer a correction to contemporary culture and criticism, with its emphasis on the momentary event as an agency of change"--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Time in literature. 650 0 $a Time perception in literature. 600 10 $a Dickens, Charles, $d 1812-1870 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Eliot, George, $d 1819-1880 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Conrad, Joseph, $d 1857-1924 $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z England $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Literature and technology $z England $x History $y 19th century. 830 0 $a Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; $v 77. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180116043405.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BA81D3A2991C11E18EA509A36AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search