Description |
1 online resource |
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
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Time in literature.
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Time -- Philosophy
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Time perception in literature.
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- 18th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English fiction
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Literature and society
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Time in literature
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Time perception in literature
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Time -- Philosophy
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England
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780812295030 |
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081229503X |
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