Telling Time Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785

Name: Telling Time Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785
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ISBN: 9780226752778

ISBN-10: 0226752771

ISBN-13: 9780226752778

Edition: 1997

Authors: Stuart Sherman

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In Telling Time, Stuart Sherman argues that innovations in prose emerged with this technological breakthrough, enabling authors to recount the new kind of time by which England was learning to live and work.

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 342
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Tick, Tick, Tick: Chronometric Innovation and Prose Form



""In The Fullness of Time"": Pepys and His Predecessors



""With My Minute Wach in My Hand"": The Diary as Time Keeper



""To Print My Self Out"": Correspondence and Containment in the Spectator and Its Predecessors



Travel Writing and the Dialectic of Diurnal Form



Diurnal Dialectic in the Western Islands



Defoe and Burney: The Unmaking of the Diurnal in the Making of the Novel


Epilogue


Notes


Index