The cosmic time of empire
Subtitle: modern Britain and world literature
By: Adam Barrows
Series: Flashpoints -- 3; Flashpoints (Berkeley, Calif.) -- 3.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780520260993
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); Time in literature; Time; English fiction; Political aspects; Systems and standards; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : modernism and the politics of time; title: Standard time, Greenwich, and the cosmopolitan clock; title: "Turning from the shadows that follow us": modernist time and the politics of place; title: At the limits of imperial time; or, dracula must die!; title: "The shortcomings of timetables" : Greenwich, modernism, and the limits of modernity; title: "A few hours wrong" : standard time and Indian literature in English; title: Conclusion : a postmodern politics of time? Negri's "global phenomenological fabric" and Amis's backward arrow.