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Serial Forms - The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848 (Hardcover)
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Serial Forms - The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848 (Hardcover)
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Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848
proposes an entirely new way of reading the transition into the
modern. It is the first book in a series of three which will take
the reader up to the end of the First World War, moving from a
focus on London to a global perspective. Serial Forms sets out the
theoretical and historical basis for all three volumes. It suggests
that, as a serial news culture and a stadial historicism developed
together between 1815 and 1848, seriality became the dominant form
of the nineteenth century. Through serial newsprint, illustrations,
performances, and shows, the past and the contemporary moment enter
into public visibility together. Serial Forms argues that it is
through seriality that the social is represented as increasingly
politically urgent. The insistent rhythm of the serial reorganizes
time, recalibrates and rescales the social, and will prepare the
way for the 1848 revolutions which are the subject of the next
book. By placing their work back into the messy print and
performance culture from which it originally appeared, Serial Forms
is able to produce new and exciting readings of familiar authors
such as Scott, Byron, Dickens, and Gaskell. Rather than offering a
rarefied intellectual history or chopping up the period into
'Romantic' and 'Victorian', Clare Pettitt tracks the development of
communications technologies and their impact on the ways in which
time, history and virtuality are imagined.
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