Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes is a
collection of essays that reflect on how the literature of the
Victorian era engaged with new ways of thinking about time. These
essays examine how Victorian fiction registers the psychological
adjustment involved in keeping pace with industrial time as
time-saving technologies aimed at making economic life more
efficient, signalling the dawn of a new age of accelerated time.
Examining canonical realist novels, popular literature and science
fiction, these essays reveal an often ambivalent and complex
response to the onset of "industrial time" and the birth of a
modern time-consciousness. Documenting the era's literary responses
to the impact and rate of industrial progress and the
potentialities of technology these essays trace the Victorians'
radical shift in time perception from industrial novels at the
onset of industrialization through to fin de siecle narratives of
dystopia and apocalypse.
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