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| Books | KISAJU MAIN CAMPUS - Open Collection | PR 878.T5 Z46 2011 (Browse shelf) | Available | 2023-0187 |
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| PR 504.5 .M38 2000 Studying poetry / | PR 504.5 .M38 2000 Studying poetry / | PR 878.T5 Z46 2011 Time and the moment in Victorian literature and society / | PR 878.T5 Z46 2011 Time and the moment in Victorian literature and society / | PR 9387.9 A24 1987 Anthills of the savannah | PS 3569. S74 1991 Jewels / | PZ7 .M57 M49 2008 Breaking dawn / |
Includes bibliographical references (p.263-278) and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1. A brief history of the moment; 2. The economic mediation of time; 3. Pie'd: the moment in mid-Victorian working-class fiction; 4. Dickens's peripatetic novels; 5. Adam Bede and the redemption of time; 6. Daniel Deronda: Eliot's anti-epiphanic novel; 7. Panic in Lord Jim; Conclusion: lost duration.
"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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