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Time and the moment in Victorian literature and society /
"Sudden changes, opportunities or revelations have always carried a special significance in western culture, from the Greek and later the Christian kairos to Evangelical experiences of conversion. This fascinating book explores the ways in which England, under the influence of industrialising f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
77. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Sudden changes, opportunities or revelations have always carried a special significance in western culture, from the Greek and later the Christian kairos to Evangelical experiences of conversion. This fascinating book explores the ways in which England, under the influence of industrialising forces and increased precision in assessing the passing of time, attached importance to moments and events that compress great significance into small units of time. Sue Zemka questions the importance that modernity invests in momentary events, from religion to aesthetics and philosophy. She argues for a strain in Victorian and early modern novels critical of the values the age invested in moments of time, and suggests that such novels also offer a correction to contemporary culture and criticism, with its emphasis on the momentary event as an agency of change"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 285 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-278) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139190824 1139190822 9781139185929 1139185926 9781139188227 1139188224 1283384035 9781283384032 9781139017565 113901756X |