Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Society

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British
Cover of the book Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Society by Sue Zemka, Cambridge University Press
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Author: Sue Zemka ISBN: 9781139179775
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: November 24, 2011
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Sue Zemka
ISBN: 9781139179775
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: November 24, 2011
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

Sudden changes, opportunities, or revelations have always carried a special significance in Western culture, from the Greek and later the Christian kairos to Evangelical experiences of conversion. This fascinating book explores the ways in which England, under the influence of industrializing forces and increased precision in assessing the passing of time, attached importance to moments, events that compress great significance into small units of time. Sue Zemka questions the importance that modernity invests in momentary events, from religion to aesthetics and philosophy. She argues for a strain in Victorian and early modern novels critical of the values the age invested in moments of time, and suggests that such novels also offer a correction to contemporary culture and criticism, with its emphasis on the momentary event as an agency of change.

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Sudden changes, opportunities, or revelations have always carried a special significance in Western culture, from the Greek and later the Christian kairos to Evangelical experiences of conversion. This fascinating book explores the ways in which England, under the influence of industrializing forces and increased precision in assessing the passing of time, attached importance to moments, events that compress great significance into small units of time. Sue Zemka questions the importance that modernity invests in momentary events, from religion to aesthetics and philosophy. She argues for a strain in Victorian and early modern novels critical of the values the age invested in moments of time, and suggests that such novels also offer a correction to contemporary culture and criticism, with its emphasis on the momentary event as an agency of change.

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