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Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes

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Author(s): Trish Ferguson (eds.)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2013

Language: English
Tags: Nineteenth-Century Literature; British and Irish Literature; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-15
The Best of Time, The Worst of Time: Temporal Consciousness in Dickens....Pages 16-37
Emptying Time in Anthony Trollope’s The Warden....Pages 38-56
Hardy’s Wessex and the Birth of Industrial Subjectivity....Pages 57-76
‘You Are Too Slow’: Time in Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days....Pages 77-94
Brave New Worlds: Samuel Butler’s Erewhon, Settler Colonialism and New Zealand Mean Time....Pages 95-111
‘Primitive Man’ and Media Time in H.M. Stanley’s Through the Dark Continent....Pages 112-131
‘The Honest Application of the Obvious’: The Scientific Futurity of H.G. Wells....Pages 132-152
‘The End of Time’: M.P. Shiel and the ‘Apocalyptic Imaginary’....Pages 153-177
‘Gone Into Mourning … for the Death of the Sun’: Victorians at the End of Time....Pages 178-195
Back Matter....Pages 196-219