عنوان

Time and the moment in Victorian literature and society /

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1107007429

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9781107007420

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Title Proper

Time and the moment in Victorian literature and society /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Sue Zemka

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

vii, 285 pages,

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;

Volume Designation

77

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-278) and index

Text of Note

Introduction -- 1. A brief history of the moment -- 2. The economic mediation of time -- 3. Pie'd : the moment in mid-Victorian working-class fiction -- 4. Dickens's peripatetic novels -- 5. Adam Bede and the redemption of time -- 6. Daniel Deronda : Eliot's anti-epiphanic novel -- 7. Panic in Lord Jim -- Conclusion: Lost duration

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"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"--

Conrad, Joseph,1857-1924-- Criticism and interpretation

Dickens, Charles,1812-1870-- Criticism and interpretation

Eliot, George,1819-1880-- Criticism and interpretation

English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism

Literature and society-- England-- History-- 19th century

Literature and technology-- England-- History-- 19th century

Time in literature

Time perception in literature

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Book number

Zemka, Sue,1958-

Date of Transaction

20120227155409.0

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