Trish Ferguson

Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes - Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture Trish Ferguson

Marc Notes: ; 8; 'Victorian Time' examines how literature of the era registers the psychological impact of the onset of a modern, industrialized experience of time as time-saving technologies, such as steam-powered machinery, aimed at making economic life more efficient, signalling the dawn of a new age of accelerated time.. Biographical Note: TRISH FERGUSON is a lecturer in the School of English at Liverpool Hope University, UK. Educated at Trinity College Dublin, she is an expert on Victorian literature and culture. Review Quotes:""Victorian Time" provides a compelling, informative, and thorough study of Victorian literature in an age of rapid temporal change, and it is attentive to temporality across a range of topics that include media, science, technology, and colonialism. Ambitious in scope and precise in detail, this collection is a valuable contribution to scholarship on Victorian time in all of its multiplicity and complication." - "Victorian Periodicals Review"Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction / Trish Ferguson -- 2. The Best of Time, The Worst of Time: Temporal Consciousness in Dickens / Daragh Downes -- 3. Emptying Time in Anthony Trollope's The Warden / Jarlath Killeen -- 4. Hardy's Wessex and the Birth of Industrial Subjectivity / Trish Ferguson -- 5. 'You Are Too Slow': Time in Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days / Jane Suzanne Carroll -- 6. Brave New Worlds: Samuel Butler's Erewhon, Settler Colonialism and New Zealand Mean Time / Jenny McDonnell -- 7. 'Primitive Man' and Media Time in H. M. Stanley's Through the Dark Continent / Brian H. Murray -- 8. The Honest Application of the Obvious': The Scientific Futurity of H. G. Wells / Miles Link -- 9. The End of Time': M. P. Shiel and the 'Apocalyptic Imaginary' / Ailise Bulfin -- 10. 'Gone Into Mourning ... for the Death of the Sun': Victorians at the End of Time / Darryl Jones -- Bibliography -- Index. Publisher Marketing: 'Victorian Time' examines how literature of the era registers the psychological impact of the onset of a modern, industrialized experience of time as time-saving technologies, such as steam-powered machinery, aimed at making economic life more efficient, signalling the dawn of a new age of accelerated time.