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

by Stuart Sherman and Professor Stuart Sherman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226752771
• ISBN13: 9780226752778
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"