Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830 : Hours of Folly? (British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century)

Tomalin, Marcus

Routledge（2021/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 218 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032237404
• DDC分類 820.9356

Full Description

Although the broad topic of time and literature in the long eighteenth century has received focused attention from successive generations of literary critics, this book adopts a radically new approach to the subject. Taking inspiration from recent revisionist accounts of the horological practices of the age, as well as current trends in ecocriticism, historical prosody, sensory history, social history, and new materialism, it offers a pioneering investigation of themes that have never previously received sustained critical scrutiny. Specifically, it explores how the essayists, poets, playwrights, and novelists of the period meditated deeply upon the physical form, social functions, and philosophical implications of particular time-telling objects. Consequently, each chapter considers a different device - mechanical watches, pendulums, sandglasses, sundials, flowers, and bells - and the literary responses of significant figures such as Alexander Pope, Anne Steele, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charlotte Smith, and William Hazlitt are carefully examined.

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Watches

Chapter 2: Pendulums

Chapter 3: Sandglasses ¿

Chapter 4: Sundials

Chapter 5: Flowers

Chapter 6: Bells

Conclusion