Rethinking secular time in Victorian England / Stefan Høyrem-Fisher.
Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan, author.
2022
BL2765.G7
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Title Rethinking secular time in Victorian England / Stefan Høyrem-Fisher.
Author Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan, author.
ISBN 9783031092855 (electronic bk.)
3031092856 (electronic bk.)
9783031092848
3031092848
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09285-5
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 232 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-09285-5 doi
Call Number BL2765.G7
Dewey Decimal Classification 211/.60941
Summary This open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in nineteenth-century technological networks. Untethering the concept of secularity from questions of religion and belief, it offers an innovative rethinking of the history of secularisation that will appeal to students, scholars, and everyone interested in secularity, Victorian culture, the history of technology, and the temporalities of modernity. Stefan Fisher-Hyrem (PhD) is a historian and Senior Academic Librarian at the University of Agder, Norway.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Open access
Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 16, 2022).
Series Histories of the sacred and the secular 1700-2000. 2946-336X
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1 Introduction: Secularities, Technologies, and Modern
Temporalities
Challenging Secularization
First Challenge: The Material Turn
Second Challenge: The Temporal Turn
Confusing Times
Rethinking Secularization
Overview of the Book
Bibliography
2 Secular Time: Origin Story and Operationalization
Origins of the Saeculum
Immutable Mobiles
Victorian Networks
Bibliography
3 Railways: Tracks, Trains, and Travellers
Moving Bodies
Local Time
Branching Out
Temporal Trauma
The Transport Machine
Tracks
Trains
Travellers
Temporal Coordination
Conclusion
Bibliography
4 News: The Pursuit of Immediacy
Temporality and Form
A Printed Public Sphere
Emerging Publics
Environmental Resistance
Expanding Networks
Mobilization
Insulation
Printing
Journalism Skills
Conclusion
Bibliography
5 Banknotes: The Money of Civilization
Performing the Economy
Gold Standard
The State
Policing the Standard
The Bank of England
A Network of Notes
A Combination of the Arts
As Good as Gold
Conclusion
Bibliography
6 Conclusion: A New Approach to Secularization
Bibliography
Index.

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