Victorian Time Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes
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.
Keywords
Literary CriticismModern19th CenturyEuropeanSemiotics & TheorySocial ScienceLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & ComparativeAnthropologyCultural & Social
2013Book
Author(s)Trish Ferguson
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781137007971
LanguageEnglish
