Telling time : clocks, diaries, and English diurnal form, 1660-1785 / Stuart Sherman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996Edition: [1st edition]Description: xv, 323 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0226752771
  • 9780226752778
  • 0226752763
  • 9780226752761
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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.
Summary: In Telling Time, Stuart Sherman argues that innovations in prose emerged with this technological breakthrough, enabling authors to recount the new kind of time by which England was learning to live and work.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room PR769 .S53 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000051793

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-311) and index.

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.

In Telling Time, Stuart Sherman argues that innovations in prose emerged with this technological breakthrough, enabling authors to recount the new kind of time by which England was learning to live and work.

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Time in English Literature

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