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Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785, Sherman, Stu
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- Book Title
- Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-178
- ISBN
- 9780226752761
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226752763
ISBN-13
9780226752761
eBay Product ID (ePID)
203539
Product Key Features
Language
English
Topic
Diaries & Journals, Journalism, Clocks & Watches, General, Time, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Subjects & Themes / General, Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Science, Antiques & Collectibles, Literary Collections
Illustrator
Yes
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9 In.
Item Height
0.1 In.
Item Weight
23.1 Oz
Item Width
0.6 In.
Additional Product Features
LCCN
96-008533
Book Title
Telling Time : Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785
Dewey Decimal
828/.08
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Synopsis
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.
Publication Year
1997
Format
Hardcover
Dewey Edition
20
Table Of Content
Preface Acknowledgments 1: Tick, Tick, Tick: Chronometric Innovation and Prose Form 2: "In The Fullness of Time": Pepys and His Predecessors 3: "With My Minute Wach in My Hand": The Diary as Time Keeper 4: "To Print My Self Out": Correspondence and Containment in the Spectator and Its Predecessors 5: Travel Writing and the Dialectic of Diurnal Form 6: Diurnal Dialectic in the Western Islands 7: Defoe and Burney: The Unmaking of the Diurnal in the Making of the Novel Epilogue Notes Index
LC Classification Number
PR769.S53 1996
Number of Pages
342 pages
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