| Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes 2013 Edition Contributor(s): Ferguson, T. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1137007974 ISBN-13: 9781137007971 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 306.01 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.6" (0.95 lbs) 219 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Victorian Time examines how literature of the era registers the psychological impact of the onset of a modern, industrialized experience of time as time-saving technologies, such as steam-powered machinery, aimed at making economic life more efficient, signalling the dawn of a new age of accelerated time. |