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Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature
Engelsk Hardback
Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature
Engelsk Hardback

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Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature argues that Victorian literature uses traces of a lingering past to theorize time as non-progressive and discontinuous. For decades, the dominant view in Victorian studies has been that the period’s economic, political, and intellectual developments led to a broad sense that time was defined by continuous improvement—and that this masternarrative of progress was evident across Victorian writings. McAdams contributes to a broader scholarly challenge of this thesis by considering how the irregular life-cycles of individuals and objects undermine Victorian progress. Unfashionable waistcoats, aging courtesans, and remembered conversations in Victorian literature instead reveal numerous alternative conceptions of time theorized against the emerging dominance of a progress narrative. The book uncovers the heterogenous shapes of time imagined by Victorian literature—regress, cyclicality, stasis, and rupture. These shapes are not simply progress’s others, but rather constituent elements of progress’s theorization.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9781399532846
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1399532847
Udg. Dato:
30 nov 2024
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
241mm
Højde:
161mm
Forlag:
Edinburgh University Press
Oplagsdato:
30 nov 2024
Forfatter(e):
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