Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes

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.

Author: T. Ferguson
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/17/2013
Pages: 219
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781137007971

About the Author
AILISE BULFIN Doctoral Candidate, Ireland JANE SUZANNE CARROLL School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland DARAGH DOWNES School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland DARRYL JONES Senior Lecturer, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland JARLATH KILLEEN Lecturer, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland MILES LINK Doctoral Candidate, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland JENNY MCDONNELL Lecturer, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland BRIAN H. MURRAY Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University, UK