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Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century /
"The idea that there is a relation between media and time is a familiar one. It is often said that digital technologies have quickened the pace at which we consume information in the modern world. In Christina Lupton's Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century, she looks bac...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: when do we read?
- The shortness of time; The tense of reading literature as resistance; The difference time makes; Media history as literary method
- Time divided
- No difference
- Talbot's lack of time
- Breaking the weekly round
- Some Sunday readers
- Sir Charles comes and goes
- Joining up time
- Re-reading for happiness
- Slow translation
- Grenville's reading journals
- Lifetimes of reading
- Other times
- Reading in the field
- Linear and random access
- Literature and contingency
- Amelia's beginning with the end
- Sidney Bidulph and the twice told marriage
- The Griffiths' marriage by the book
- Time to come
- Stockpiling
- Romantic media
- A simple story's reading comes later
- Godwin's future is now
- Hard cover truths
- You can't skip pages
- Coda: academic time.