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Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785 - Softcover

Sherman, Stuart

 
9780226752778: Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226752771 ISBN 13: 9780226752778
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

A revolution in clock technology in England during the 1660s allowed people to measure time more accurately, attend to it more minutely, and possess it more privately than previously imaginable. In Telling Time, Stuart Sherman argues that innovations in prose emerged simultaneously with this technological breakthrough, enabling authors to recount the new kind of time by which England was learning to live and work.

Through brilliant readings of Samuel Pepys's diary, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele's daily Spectator, the travel writings of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, and the novels of Daniel Defoe and Frances Burney, Sherman traces the development of a new way of counting time in prose—the diurnal structure of consecutively dated installments—within the cultural context of the daily institutions which gave it form and motion. Telling Time is not only a major accomplishment for seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literary studies, but it also makes important contributions to current discourse in cultural studies.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226752771
ISBN 13 
9780226752778
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
342
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