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Author Yahav, Amit S., author

Title Feeling time : duration, the novel, and eighteenth-century sensibility / Amit S. Yahav
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
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Contents Introduction : The sensibility chronotope -- Composing human time : Locke, Hume, Addison, and Diderot -- Temporal moralities and momentums of plot : Richardson and Hutcheson -- Sympathetic moments and rhythmic narration : Sterne, early musicology, and the Elocutionists -- Durational aesthetics and the logic of character : Radcliffe, Burke, and Smith -- Coda : The end of human time?
Summary Feeling Time highlights the temporal underpinnings of the eighteenth century's culture of sensibility, arguing that novelists have often drawn on logics of musical composition to make their writing an especially effective tool for exploring time and for shaping durational experience
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 9, 2018)
Subject English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Time in literature.
Time -- Philosophy
Time perception in literature.
Literature and society -- England -- History -- 18th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction
Literature and society
Time in literature
Time perception in literature
Time -- Philosophy
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812295030
081229503X