The Cosmic Time of Empire : Modern Britain and World Literature /

The Cosmic Time of Empire : Modern Britain and World Literature / Adam Barrows.

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Combining original historical research with literary analysis, Adam Barrows takes a provocative look at the creation of world standard time in 1884 and rethinks the significance of this remarkable moment in modernism for both the processes of imperialism and for modern literature. As representatives...

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Main Author: Barrows, Adam (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2010]
Series:FlashPoints ; 3.
Subjects:
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > English-speaking countries.
Time in literature.
Time > Political aspects.
Time > Systems and standards.
English fiction.
Modernism (Literature)
English-speaking countries.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Standard Time, Greenwich, and the Cosmopolitan Clock
  • Chapter 2. "Turning From the Shadows That Follow Us"
  • Chapter 3. At the Limits of Imperial Time; or, Dracula Must Die!
  • Chapter 4. "The Shortcomings of Timetables"
  • Chapter 5. "A Few Hours Wrong"
  • Conclusion. A Postmodern Politics of Time?
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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