Telling Time
Subtitle: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780226752778
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Social history; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; England; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 18th century; Early modern, 1500-1700; English prose literature; History and criticism; Travelers' writings, English
First sentence: In his well-known essay on "Time, Work-Discipline and Industrial Capitalism," E. P. Thompson coins a telling phrase to pinpoint his elusive topic.