LEADER 03816nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910811438403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-27744-1 010 $a9786613277442 010 $a0-520-94815-7 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520948150 035 $a(CKB)2670000000066774 035 $a(EBL)631056 035 $a(OCoLC)699475050 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000468047 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11973254 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468047 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10497230 035 $a(PQKB)10392603 035 $a(OCoLC)701057230 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30886 035 $a(DE-B1597)519561 035 $a(OCoLC)1110714791 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520948150 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL631056 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10440603 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL327744 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC631056 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000066774 100 $a20100518d2011 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe cosmic time of empire $emodern Britain and world literature /$fAdam Barrows 205 $a1st ed. 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 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aTime in literature. 615 0$aTime$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aTime$xSystems and standards. 676 $a823/.80933 700 $aBarrows$b Adam$01054407 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811438403321 996 $aThe cosmic time of empire$94001059 997 $aUNINA