Marcus Tomalin

Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830 (eBook, PDF)

Hours of Folly?

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how the essayists, poets, playwrights, and novelists of the long eighteenth century meditated deeply upon the physical form, social functions, and philosophical implications of time-telling objects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000042047
• Artikelnr.: 58952676

Autorenporträt

Marcus Tomalin is Fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. His research focuses on the literature of the long eighteenth century, with a particular emphasis on language and temporality. He is especially interested in the various relationships between natural language, mathematics, philosophy, and literature. His many publications include Linguistics and the Formal Sciences (CUP, 2006), Romanticism and Linguistic Theory: William Hazlitt, Language, and Literature (Palgrave, 2009), "And he knew our language": Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast (John Benjamins, 2011), and The French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830 (Routledge, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Watches
Chapter 2: Pendulums
Chapter 3: Sandglasses
Chapter 4: Sundials
Chapter 5: Flowers
Chapter 6: Bells
Conclusion