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Stuart Sherman

Telling Time

Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785

Stuart Sherman

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English
University of Chicago Press
01 February 1997
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Social & cultural history; Time (chronology), time systems & standards; Clocks, chronometers & watches (horology)
Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
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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Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   2nd ed.
Dimensions:   Height: 23mm,  Width: 16mm,  Spine: 2mm
Weight:   624g
ISBN:   9780226752761
ISBN 10:   0226752763
Series:   Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
Pages:   342
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  A / AS level ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
  • Winner of American Society for 18th-Century Studies Louis Gotschalk Prize 1997
  • Winner of American Society for 18th-Century Studies Louis Gotschalk Prize 1997.

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