Sue Zemka

Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Society

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the human fascination with sudden events, such as shocks, surprises, love, gods, ghosts, accidents, explosions and revelations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 593g
• ISBN-13: 9781107007420
• ISBN-10: 1107007429
• Artikelnr.: 34229078

Autorenporträt

Sue Zemka is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Inhaltsangabe

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' 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.