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Title:

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

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xii, 219 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

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

Other Authors:

Ferguson, Trish.

Notes:

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

Contents:

'Gone into mourning-- for the death of the Sun' : Victorians at the end of time / Darryl Jones. 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' / Ailise Bulfin -- 'Gone into mourning-- for the death of the Sun' : Victorians at the end of time / Darryl Jones.

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:

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

ISBN:

9781137007971
1137007974

OCLC:

(OCoLC)806431392

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)