The Resource Excavating Victorians, Virginia Zimmerman
Excavating Victorians, Virginia Zimmerman
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The item Excavating Victorians, Virginia Zimmerman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool.
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- Summary
- "Excavating Victorians examines nineteenth-century Britain's reaction to the revelations about time and natural history provided by the new sciences of geology and archaeology. The Victorians faced one of the greatest paradigm shifts in history: the bottom dropped out of time, and they had to reinvent their relationship to the earth and to time and history. These new sciences took the Victorians by storm, inundating them with fossils, skeletal remains, and potsherds - artifacts, or traces, that served at once as relics from the past, objects in the present, and markers of time's passage. Virginia Zimmerman explores how the Victorians utilized a nexus of literature, excavation, and reflections on time to ease anxieties about the individual's fate in the face of time's overwhelming expanse. The function of artifacts is also considered through careful readings of Tennyson's The Princess and Dickens's Little Dorrit and Our Mutual Friend. Zimmerman shows how these literary works make use of the language, tropes, and even generic conventions of excavation, and how they participate in the effort to rescue the individual from temporal insignificance."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 231 p.
- Contents
-
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1.
- Introduction: "All Relics Here Together".
- p. 1
- 2.
- Victorian Geologist: Reading Remains and Writing Time.
- p. 27
- 3.
- Tennyson's Fairy Tale of Science.
- p. 65
- 4.
- Accidental Archaeology in London and Pompeii.
- p. 97
- 5.
- Dickens among the Ruins.
- p. 143
- 6.
- Final Fragments.
- p. 177
- Notes.
- p. 179
- Bibliography.
- p. 207
- Index.
- p. 225
- Isbn
- 9780791472798
- Label
- Excavating Victorians
- Title
- Excavating Victorians
- Statement of responsibility
- Virginia Zimmerman
- Subject
-
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Geology in literature
- Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Space and time in literature
- Time -- Philosophy
- Archaeology in literature
- Authors, English -- 19th century -- Philosophy
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Excavating Victorians examines nineteenth-century Britain's reaction to the revelations about time and natural history provided by the new sciences of geology and archaeology. The Victorians faced one of the greatest paradigm shifts in history: the bottom dropped out of time, and they had to reinvent their relationship to the earth and to time and history. These new sciences took the Victorians by storm, inundating them with fossils, skeletal remains, and potsherds - artifacts, or traces, that served at once as relics from the past, objects in the present, and markers of time's passage. Virginia Zimmerman explores how the Victorians utilized a nexus of literature, excavation, and reflections on time to ease anxieties about the individual's fate in the face of time's overwhelming expanse. The function of artifacts is also considered through careful readings of Tennyson's The Princess and Dickens's Little Dorrit and Our Mutual Friend. Zimmerman shows how these literary works make use of the language, tropes, and even generic conventions of excavation, and how they participate in the effort to rescue the individual from temporal insignificance."--BOOK JACKET
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Zimmerman, Virginia
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR468.G38
- LC item number
- Z56 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- English literature
- Geology in literature
- Archaeology in literature
- Space and time in literature
- Time
- Authors, English
- Literature and science
- Literature and history
- Label
- Excavating Victorians, Virginia Zimmerman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1.
- Introduction: "All Relics Here Together".
- p. 1
- 2.
- Victorian Geologist: Reading Remains and Writing Time.
- p. 27
- 3.
- Tennyson's Fairy Tale of Science.
- p. 65
- 4.
- Accidental Archaeology in London and Pompeii.
- p. 97
- 5.
- Dickens among the Ruins.
- p. 143
- 6.
- Final Fragments.
- p. 177
- Notes.
- p. 179
- Bibliography.
- p. 207
- Index.
- p. 225
- Control code
- 982006101369
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- x, 231 p.
- Isbn
- 9780791472798
- Lccn
- 2006101369
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Label
- Excavating Victorians, Virginia Zimmerman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1.
- Introduction: "All Relics Here Together".
- p. 1
- 2.
- Victorian Geologist: Reading Remains and Writing Time.
- p. 27
- 3.
- Tennyson's Fairy Tale of Science.
- p. 65
- 4.
- Accidental Archaeology in London and Pompeii.
- p. 97
- 5.
- Dickens among the Ruins.
- p. 143
- 6.
- Final Fragments.
- p. 177
- Notes.
- p. 179
- Bibliography.
- p. 207
- Index.
- p. 225
- Control code
- 982006101369
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- x, 231 p.
- Isbn
- 9780791472798
- Lccn
- 2006101369
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- ill.
Subject
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Geology in literature
- Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Space and time in literature
- Time -- Philosophy
- Archaeology in literature
- Authors, English -- 19th century -- Philosophy
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