The Cosmic Time of Empire : Modern Britain and World Literature /

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Combining original historical research with literary analysis, Adam Barrows takes a provocative look at the creation of world standard time in 1884 and rethinks the significance of this remarkable moment in modernism for both the processes of imperialism and for modern literature. As representatives...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Barrows, Adam (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Temps > Aspect politique.
Temps dans la litterature.
Modernisme (Litterature) > Anglophonie.
Roman anglais > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Time > Systems and standards.
Time > Political aspects.
Time in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
English fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Modernism (Literature) > English-speaking countries.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
English-speaking countries.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : modernism and the politics of time
  • Standard time, Greenwich, and the cosmopolitan clock
  • "Turning from the shadows that follow us": modernist time and the politics of place
  • At the limits of imperial time; or, dracula must die!
  • "The shortcomings of timetables" : Greenwich, modernism, and the limits of modernity
  • "A few hours wrong" : standard time and Indian literature in English
  • Conclusion : a postmodern politics of time? Negri's "global phenomenological fabric" and Amis's backward arrow.

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