Stuart Sherman

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Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785Hardcover, 1 February 1997

Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785
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Print Length
342 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Date Published
1 Feb 1997
ISBN-10
0226752763
ISBN-13
9780226752761

Description

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 Telling Time, 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 brilliant 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 which gave it form and motion. Telling Time is not only a major accomplishment for seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literary studies, but it also makes important contributions to current discourse in cultural studies.

Product Details

Author:
Stuart Sherman
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 February 1997
Dimensions:
23.65 x 15.98 x 2.51 cm
Genre:
British
ISBN-10:
0226752763
ISBN-13:
9780226752761
Language:
English
Location:
Chicago, IL
Pages:
342
Weight:
594.21 gm

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