{"product_id":"telling-time-stuart-sherman-9780226752778","title":"Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785","description":"A revolution in clock technology in England during the 1660s allowed people to measure time more accurately, attend to it more minutely, and possess it more privately than previously imaginable. In \u003ci\u003eTelling Time\u003c\/i\u003e, Stuart Sherman argues that innovations in prose emerged simultaneously with this technological breakthrough, enabling authors to recount the new kind of time by which England was learning to live and work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough brilliant readings of Samuel Pepys's diary, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele's daily \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e, the travel writings of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, and the novels of Daniel Defoe and Frances Burney, Sherman traces the development of a new way of counting time in prose--the diurnal structure of consecutively dated installments--within the cultural context of the daily institutions which gave it form and motion. \u003ci\u003eTelling Time\u003c\/i\u003e is not only a major accomplishment for seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literary studies, but it also makes important contributions to current discourse in cultural studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stuart Sherman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226752771\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226752778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.09w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/1997 pg. 118","brand":"Stuart Sherman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45481706946815,"sku":"9780226752778","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b5a684e4-fe24-443a-bca9-64127465f59e.jpg?v=1715987433","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/telling-time-stuart-sherman-9780226752778","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}