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Author Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan, author

Title Rethinking secular time in Victorian England / Stefan Høyrem-Fisher
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 232 pages) : illustrations
Series Histories of the sacred and secular, 1700-2000, 2946-336X
Histories of the sacred and the secular 1700-2000. 2946-336X
Contents 1 Introduction: Secularities, Technologies, and Modern -- Temporalities -- Challenging Secularization -- First Challenge: The Material Turn -- Second Challenge: The Temporal Turn -- Confusing Times -- Rethinking Secularization -- Overview of the Book -- Bibliography -- 2 Secular Time: Origin Story and Operationalization -- Origins of the Saeculum -- Immutable Mobiles -- Victorian Networks -- Bibliography -- 3 Railways: Tracks, Trains, and Travellers -- Moving Bodies -- Local Time -- Branching Out -- Temporal Trauma -- The Transport Machine -- Tracks -- Trains -- Travellers -- Temporal Coordination -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4 News: The Pursuit of Immediacy -- Temporality and Form -- A Printed Public Sphere -- Emerging Publics -- Environmental Resistance -- Expanding Networks -- Mobilization -- Insulation -- Printing -- Journalism Skills -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 5 Banknotes: The Money of Civilization -- Performing the Economy -- Gold Standard -- The State -- Policing the Standard -- The Bank of England -- A Network of Notes -- A Combination of the Arts -- As Good as Gold -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 6 Conclusion: A New Approach to Secularization -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary This open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in nineteenth-century technological networks. Untethering the concept of secularity from questions of religion and belief, it offers an innovative rethinking of the history of secularisation that will appeal to students, scholars, and everyone interested in secularity, Victorian culture, the history of technology, and the temporalities of modernity. Stefan Fisher-Hyrem (PhD) is a historian and Senior Academic Librarian at the University of Agder, Norway
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 16, 2022)
Subject Secularism -- England -- History -- 19th century
Time -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- 19th century
Technology -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- 19th century
Manners and customs
Secularism
Technology -- Social aspects
Time -- Social aspects
SUBJECT England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043324
Subject England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783031092855
3031092856