Telling Time

Name: Telling Time
Brand: University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226752761
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Clocks, Diaries and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785

Автор: Stuart Pratt Sherman

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Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: University of Chicago Press

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A revolution in clock technology in England during the 1660s allowed people to measure time more acc...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Stuart Pratt Sherman

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

1997

страници

296

EAN

9780226752761

Enbook ID

04549314

Издател

University of Chicago Press

Теглоt

594

Размери

134 x 204 x 25

Пълно описание

A revolution in clock technology in England during the 1660s allowed people to measure time more accurately, attend to it more minutely, and possess it more privately than previously imaginable. In this text, Stuart Sherman argues that innovations in prose emerged simultaneously with this technological breakthrough, enabling authors to recount the new kind of time by which England was learning to live and work. Through readings of Samuel Pepys's diary, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele's daily "Spectator", the travel writings of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell and the novels of Daniel Defoe and Frances Burney, Sherman traces the development of a new way of counting time in prose - the diurnal structure of consecutively dated installments - within the cultural context of the daily institutions that gave it form and motion.

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