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The Cosmic Time of Empire

Modern Britain and World Literature

Adam Barrows

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Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews

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Combining 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.

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globe, 1884, negri, backward arrow, modernity, nature of time, h rider haggard, india, prime meridian, james joyce, geopolitics, virginia woolf, modern literature, temporality, imperialism, semiotics theory, victorian literature, greenwich, cosmopolitan clock, modernist, politics, science, south asian novels, high modernism, time, rudyard kipling, empire, human temporality, bram stoker, joseph conrad, literary criticism, adventure novels, modernism, indian literature, world standard time, standard time, victorian culture