Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes

By Trish Ferguson

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349435422
• ISBN13: 9781349435425
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"