Feeling Time : : Duration, the Novel, and Eighteenth-Century Sensibility / / Amit S. Yahav.
Literary historians have tended to associate the eighteenth century with the rise of the tyranny of the clock-the notion of time as ruled by mechanical chronometry. The transition to standardized scheduling and time-discipline, the often-told story goes, inevitably results in modernity's time-k...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. The Sensibility Chronotope
- Chapter 1. Composing Human Time: Locke, Hume, Addison, and Diderot
- Chapter 2. Temporal Moralities and Momentums of Plot: Richardson and Hutcheson
- Chapter 3. Sympathetic Moments and Rhythmic Narration: Sterne, Early Musicology, and the Elocutionists
- Chapter 4. Durational Aesthetics and the Logic of Character: Radcliffe, Burke, and Smith
- Coda. The End of Human Time?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments