Telling time : clocks, diaries, and English diurnal form, 1660-1785 / Stuart Sherman.
Material type:
- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 0226752771
- 9780226752778
- 0226752763
- 9780226752761
- 1500-1799
- English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism
- Literature and technology -- Great Britain -- History
- Literature and society -- England -- History
- English diaries -- History and criticism
- Clocks and watches -- England -- History
- Literary form -- History -- 18th century
- Literary form -- History -- 17th century
- Journalism -- England -- History
- Time measurements -- History
- Travel writing -- History
- Time in literature
- Literature and technology -- England -- History
- Literary form
- 18.05 English literature
- Clocks and watches
- English diaries
- English prose literature
- English prose literature -- Early modern
- Journalism
- Literary form
- Literature and society
- Literature and technology
- Time in literature
- Time measurements
- Travel writing
- Travelers' writings, English
- England
- Great Britain
- Sociology
- United Kingdom
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Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room | PR769 .S53 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31560000051793 |
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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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