An empire of clocks in disarray : time coordination and adventure fiction in the British Empire, 1880-1890
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Drawing on work in history of science and imperial history as well as literary studies, this dissertation explores the interrelation of adventure fiction, time coordination, and the British Empire. It argues that adventure fiction was the preeminent form for representing not just the entirety of the British Empire, but also the interconnectedness of late-nineteenth-century globalisation. To undertake this dream of global coordination, adventure fiction relied on the technologies of time coordination that were expanding and approaching maturity in this period. One difficulty, however, was that time coordination was far less settled, far less dispersed, and far more unreliable than has often been assumed. The dissertation investigates global coordination through readings of, amongst others, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, H. Rider Haggard, and Henry James, and tries to show how contemporaries tried to make sense of their bewildering, globalised, imperial world.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Kennett, Timothy Peter Aplin |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Woloch, Alex |
| Thesis advisor | Woloch, Alex |
| Thesis advisor | Bronstein, Michaela |
| Thesis advisor | Castle, Terry |
| Degree committee member | Bronstein, Michaela |
| Degree committee member | Castle, Terry |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, English Department |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Timothy Kennett. |
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| Note | Submitted to the English Department. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/fv539sf6274 |
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- © 2023 by Timothy Peter Aplin Kennett
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