03865nam 2200769Ia 450 991046044250332120200520144314.01-283-27744-197866132774420-520-94815-710.1525/9780520948150(CKB)2670000000066774(EBL)631056(OCoLC)699475050(SSID)ssj0000468047(PQKBManifestationID)11973254(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468047(PQKBWorkID)10497230(PQKB)10392603(MiAaPQ)EBC631056(OCoLC)701057230(MdBmJHUP)muse30886(DE-B1597)519561(OCoLC)1110714791(DE-B1597)9780520948150(Au-PeEL)EBL631056(CaPaEBR)ebr10440603(CaONFJC)MIL327744(EXLCZ)99267000000006677420100518d2011 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe cosmic time of empire[electronic resource] modern Britain and world literature /Adam BarrowsBerkeley University of California Press20111 online resource (225 p.)Flash points ;3Description based upon print version of record.0-520-26099-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Standard Time, Greenwich, and the Cosmopolitan Clock -- Chapter 2. "Turning From the Shadows That Follow Us" -- Chapter 3. At the Limits of Imperial Time; or, Dracula Must Die! -- Chapter 4. "The Shortcomings of Timetables" -- Chapter 5. "A Few Hours Wrong" -- Conclusion. A Postmodern Politics of Time? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexCombining original historical research with literary analysis, Adam Barrows takes a provocative look at the creation of world standard time in 1884 and rethinks the significance of this remarkable moment in modernism for both the processes of imperialism and for modern literature. As representatives from twenty-four nations argued over adopting the Prime Meridian, and thereby measuring time in relation to Greenwich, England, writers began experimenting with new ways of representing human temporality. Barrows finds this experimentation in works as varied as Victorian adventure novels, high modernist texts, and South Asian novels-including the work of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, H. Rider Haggard, Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, and Joseph Conrad. Demonstrating the investment of modernist writing in the problems of geopolitics and in the public discourse of time, Barrows argues that it is possible, and productive, to rethink the politics of modernism through the politics of time.Flashpoints (Berkeley, Calif.) ;3.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)English-speaking countriesTime in literatureTimePolitical aspectsTimeSystems and standardsElectronic books.English fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)Time in literature.TimePolitical aspects.TimeSystems and standards.823/.80933Barrows Adam1054407MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460442503321The cosmic time of empire2486955UNINA