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Author:   Thomas M. Allen (University of Ottawa)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9781108422758

ISBN 10:   1108422756
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   29 March 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Thomas Allen; Part I. Origins: 1. Time and aesthetics Michael Clune; 2. Reading in time Mark Currie; 3. Time and genre Rebecca Bushnell; 4. Time and theatre Matthew Wagner; 5. Sacred and secular Sue Zemka; 6. Ecologies of time Tobias Menely; Part II. Development: 7. Literature, time, and scientific revolutions Jocelyn Holland; 8. Untimely objects: temporal studies and the new materialism Nick Yablon; 9. Temporalities of writing: time and difference after structuralism Ian Maclachlan; 10. Time and media J. K. Barret; 11. Technology and time: clocks, time machines, and speculation Charles Tung; 12. Historicism Jeffrey Insko; Part III. Application: 13. Time and the literary archive Michelle Sizemore; 14. Time, empire, and nation Edward Larkin; 15. Race, writing, and time Daylanne English; 16. Time and the literature of globalization Adam Barrows; 17. Time and the return to form: reading Nabokov, reading Poe Cindy Weinstein; 18. Narrative and narratology Jesse Matz; 19. Queer temporalities: space-ing time and the subject Michelle Wright; 20. In the spiral of history: gestational temporalities and indigenous women's writings on the knowledge of sexual difference Julia Emberley.

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'... this is a well-edited, thought-provoking and highly diverse collection, which offers much material for the literary scholar but also addresses issues and raises questions which will be of interest to a wider audience.' Irmtraud Huber, KronoScope '... this is a well-edited, thought-provoking and highly diverse collection, which offers much material for the literary scholar but also addresses issues and raises questions which will be of interest to a wider audience.' Irmtraud Huber, KronoScope

Author Information

Thomas M. Allen is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa and the author of A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (2008).

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