Victorian Time Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes |
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| Editor:
| Ferguson, Trish |
| Series title: | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-137-00797-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan Limited
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $137.95 |
Book Description:
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Victorian Time examines how literature of the era registers the psychological impact of the onset of a modern, industrialized experience of time as time-saving technologies, such as steam-powered machinery, aimed at making economic life more efficient, signalling the dawn of a new age of accelerated time.
Victorian Time examines how literature of the era registers the psychological impact of the onset of a modern, industrialized experience of time as time-saving technologies, such as steam-powered machinery, aimed at making economic life more efficient, signalling the dawn of a new age of accelerated time.