1st Edition

Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830 Hours of Folly?

By Marcus Tomalin Copyright 2020
218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

Although the broad topic of time and literature in the long eighteenth century has received focused attention from successive generations of literary critics, this book adopts a radically new approach to the subject. Taking inspiration from recent revisionist accounts of the horological practices of the age, as well as current trends in ecocriticism, historical prosody, sensory history, social... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1: Watches

Chapter 2: Pendulums

Chapter 3: Sandglasses ¿

Chapter 4: Sundials

Chapter 5: Flowers

Chapter 6: Bells

Conclusion

Biography

Marcus Tomalin is Fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. His research focuses on the literature of the long eighteenth century, with a particular emphasis on language and temporality. He is especially interested in the various relationships between natural language, mathematics, philosophy, and literature. His many publications include Linguistics and the Formal Sciences (CUP, 2006), Romanticism and Linguistic Theory: William Hazlitt, Language, and Literature (Palgrave, 2009), "And he knew our language": Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast (John Benjamins, 2011), and The French Language and British Literature, 1756–1830 (Routledge, 2016).