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200 14$aThe cosmic time of empire$b[electronic resource] $emodern Britain and world literature /$fAdam Barrows
210   $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2011
215   $a1 online resource (225 p.)
225 0 $aFlash points ;$v3
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311 0 $a0-520-26099-6 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Standard Time, Greenwich, and the Cosmopolitan Clock --$tChapter 2. "Turning From the Shadows That Follow Us" --$tChapter 3. At the Limits of Imperial Time; or, Dracula Must Die! --$tChapter 4. "The Shortcomings of Timetables" --$tChapter 5. "A Few Hours Wrong" --$tConclusion. A Postmodern Politics of Time? --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex
330   $aCombining original historical research with literary analysis, Adam Barrows takes a provocative look at the creation of world standard time in 1884 and rethinks the significance of this remarkable moment in modernism for both the processes of imperialism and for modern literature. As representatives from twenty-four nations argued over adopting the Prime Meridian, and thereby measuring time in relation to Greenwich, England, writers began experimenting with new ways of representing human temporality. Barrows finds this experimentation in works as varied as Victorian adventure novels, high modernist texts, and South Asian novels-including the work of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, H. Rider Haggard, Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, and Joseph Conrad. Demonstrating the investment of modernist writing in the problems of geopolitics and in the public discourse of time, Barrows argues that it is possible, and productive, to rethink the politics of modernism through the politics of time.
410  0$aFlashpoints (Berkeley, Calif.) ;$v3.
606   $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism
606   $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism
606   $aModernism (Literature)$zEnglish-speaking countries
606   $aTime in literature
606   $aTime$xPolitical aspects
606   $aTime$xSystems and standards
610   $a1884.
610   $aadventure novels.
610   $abackward arrow.
610   $abram stoker.
610   $acosmopolitan clock.
610   $aempire.
610   $ageopolitics.
610   $aglobe.
610   $agreenwich.
610   $ah rider haggard.
610   $ahigh modernism.
610   $ahuman temporality.
610   $aimperialism.
610   $aindia.
610   $aindian literature.
610   $ajames joyce.
610   $ajoseph conrad.
610   $aliterary criticism.
610   $amodern literature.
610   $amodernism.
610   $amodernist.
610   $amodernity.
610   $anature of time.
610   $anegri.
610   $apolitics.
610   $aprime meridian.
610   $arudyard kipling.
610   $ascience.
610   $asemiotics theory.
610   $asouth asian novels.
610   $astandard time.
610   $atemporality.
610   $atime.
610   $avictorian culture.
610   $avictorian literature.
610   $avirginia woolf.
610   $aworld standard time.
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615  0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism.
615  0$aModernism (Literature)
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