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Telling Time - Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785 (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Telling Time - Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785 (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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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.
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