Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes

Ferguson, T.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2013-01-17

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137007971

DOI: 10.1057/9781137007988

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 219