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050	0	0	_aPR 878.T5 _bZ46 2011
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100	1		_aZemka, Sue, _d1958- _918768
245	1	0	_aTime and the moment in Victorian literature and society / _cSue Zemka.
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2011.
300			_avii, 285 p. ; _c24 cm.
490	0		_aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; _v77
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p.263-278) and index.
505	8		_aMachine 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.
520			_a"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"--
600	1	0	_aDickens, Charles, _d1812-1870 _xCriticism and interpretation. _918769
600	1	0	_aEliot, George, _d1819-1880 _xCriticism and interpretation. _918770
600	1	0	_aConrad, Joseph, _d1857-1924 _xCriticism and interpretation. _918771
650		0	_aEnglish fiction _y19th century _xHistory and criticism. _918772
650		0	_aTime in literature. _918773
650		0	_aTime perception in literature. _918774
650		0	_aLiterature and society _zEngland _xHistory _y19th century. _918775
650		0	_aLiterature and technology _zEngland _xHistory _y19th century. _918776
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. _2bisacsh _918777
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