Feeling time : duration, the novel, and eighteenth-century sensibility /

Feeling Time highlights the temporal underpinnings of the eighteenth century's culture of sensibility, arguing that novelists have often drawn on logics of musical composition to make their writing an especially effective tool for exploring time and for shaping durational experience.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Yahav, Amit S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Subjects:
1700-1799
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Time in literature.
Time > Philosophy.
Time perception in literature.
Literature and society > England > History > 18th century.
Roman anglais > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Temps dans la littérature.
Temps > Philosophie.
Perception du temps dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction.
Literature and society.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The sensibility chronotope
  • Composing human time : Locke, Hume, Addison, and Diderot
  • Temporal moralities and momentums of plot : Richardson and Hutcheson
  • Sympathetic moments and rhythmic narration : Sterne, early musicology, and the Elocutionists
  • Durational aesthetics and the logic of character : Radcliffe, Burke, and Smith
  • Coda : The end of human time?

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