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Introduction, most accurate timepiece in the world. The Astronomer Royal, Sir George Airy, had set out high standards for the clock to meet; the first stroke of each hour was to be accurate to within one second and the clock’s performance was to be telegraphed twice a day to Greenwich Observatory.. This was the

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The Best of Time, The Worst of Time: Temporal Consciousness in Dickens,een announced that the dinner would take place at five o’clock precisely;’ Dickens reports, ‘but Earl Grey, and the other principal visitors, as might have been expected, did not arrive until shortly after six.’ .: Dickens’s studied irony shows just how alert he already is to the unwritten social ru

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PALMY 发表于 2025-3-25 22:09:51

,Hardy’s Wessex and the Birth of Industrial Subjectivity,chester where they stopped and noted ‘the . of London creeping towards them across green fields’.. This was a journey that became embedded in Hardy’s impressionable young consciousness and that epitomized the onset of a diminishing geographical and cultural space between town and country that he lat

Orthodontics 发表于 2025-3-26 02:30:46

,‘You Are Too Slow’: Time in Jules Verne’s ,ern civilization’,. and the ‘home-away-home’. pattern structures stories and folktales wherever there is a culture of travel. The plot of each of Verne’s novels may be described thus: ‘the traveler and the reader leave the known for the unknown and return finally to the known and familiar world, rei

nascent 发表于 2025-3-26 04:17:42

,Brave New Worlds: Samuel Butler’s ,, Settler Colonialism and New Zealand Mean Time,ctorian travellers abroad, though, these spatial journeys often manifested themselves as travels back in time at a symbolic level, away from the ideals of progress and modernity that the standardization of time had helped institute at mid-century and towards alien landscapes that were invested with

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血友病 发表于 2025-3-26 19:07:46

,‘The End of Time’: M.P. Shiel and the ‘Apocalyptic Imaginary’,s out humanity down to a single remaining man. As the lone survivor, Adam Jeffson, wends his erratic way through what has become a planetary necropolis, he notices that not only has the volcanic cloud annihilated all living creatures, it has also stopped all the clocks — symbolically ending time. Th
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