Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Society
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Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Society

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Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Society

About this book

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 industrializing forces and increased precision in assessing the passing of time, attached importance to moments, 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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. TIME AND THE MOMENT IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND SOCIETY
  3. CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. CHAPTER 1 A brief history of the moment
  10. CHAPTER 2 The economic mediation of time
  11. CHAPTER 3 Pie’d
  12. CHAPTER 4 Dickens’s peripatetic novels
  13. CHAPTER 5 ADAM BEDE AND THE REDEMPTION OF TIME
  14. CHAPTER 6 Daniel Deronda: Eliot’s anti-epiphanic novel
  15. CHAPTER 7 Panic in Lord Jim
  16. Conclusion: Lost duration
  17. Notes
  18. References
  19. Index