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Ferguson T. (ed.) Victorian Time. Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes

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Ferguson T. (ed.) Victorian Time. Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 — 219 p. — ISBN10: 1137007974; ISBN13: 978-1137007971.
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.
Ferguson, Trish. Introduction
Downes, Daragh. The Best of Time, The Worst of Time: Temporal Consciousness in Dickens
Killeen, Jarlath. Emptying Time in Anthony Trollope’s
Ferguson, Trish. Hardy’s Wessex and the Birth of Industrial Subjectivity
Carroll, Jane Suzanne. ‘You Are Too Slow’: Time in Jules Verne’s
McDonnell, Jenny. Brave New Worlds: Samuel Butler’s
Murray, Brian H.. ‘Primitive Man’ and Media Time in H.M. Stanley’s
Link, Miles ‘The Honest Application of the Obvious’: The Scientific Futurity of H.G. Wells
Bulfin, Ailise. ‘The End of Time’: M.P. Shiel and the ‘Apocalyptic Imaginary’
Jones, Darryl. ‘Gone Into Mourning … for the Death of the Sun’: Victorians at the End of Time
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