Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830: Hours of Folly?

by Marcus Tomalin

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367858576
• ISBN13: 9780367858575
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"