Deep Time in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel: Temporality, Science, and Literary Form

This dissertation examines representations of deep time in nineteenth-century British novels in order to argue that these texts help carve a path for our contemporary definitions of deep time and the Anthropocene. Examining fiction by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Edward Bulwer-Lytton...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Isaacson, Kja
Other Authors: Gillingham, Lauren
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36966
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-21238