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An Empire of Clocks in Disarray: Time Coordination and Adventure Fiction in the British Empire, 1880-1890.

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Title/Author:	An Empire of Clocks in Disarray: Time Coordination and Adventure Fiction in the British Empire, 1880-1890./
Author:	Kennett, Timothy.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
Description:	333 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-06A.
Subject:	British Empire. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30742169
ISBN:	9798381027587

An Empire of Clocks in Disarray: Time Coordination and Adventure Fiction in the British Empire, 1880-1890.
Kennett, Timothy.

An Empire of Clocks in Disarray: Time Coordination and Adventure Fiction in the British Empire, 1880-1890. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 333 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-06, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2023.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Drawing on work in history of science and imperial history as well as literary studies, this dissertation explores the interrelation of adventure fiction, time coordination, and the British Empire. It argues first that adventure fiction was the preeminent form for representing not just the entirety of the British Empire, but also the interconnectedness of late-nineteenth-century globalisation. To undertake this dream of global coordination, adventure fiction relied on the technologies of time coordination that were expanding and approaching maturity in this period. One difficulty, however, was that, as I show in detail, time coordination was far less settled, far less dispersed, and far more unreliable than has often been assumed. Adventure fiction, in short, was trying to coordinate the globe with faulty tools. Nonetheless, in chapter one, with readings of 1880s novel theory, Stevenson, and Haggard, the dissertation goes on to offer a comprehensive account of the adventure poetics developed in the 1880s, and relates them to the many and various networks of circulation within the British Empire. The two following chapters describe further challenges to adventure fiction's coordinating ambitions. In chapter two, with readings of Hardy, Trollope, and Haggard, I examine attempts to create a global British imperial identity, often called 'Greater Britain', and explore how such a cosmopolitan identity contained the possibility of indigenous equality and participation, which adventure fiction then struggled to foreclose. In chapter three, with readings of Kipling, the Stevensons, and James, I describe the networks of anti-imperial circulation that were also an inherent part of the British Empire, even as imperial authorities struggled to control or even comprehend them, and explore the threat they posed to adventure fiction's representative aims. My conclusion then sketches some of the literary legacies of the adventure fiction of the 1880s. Overall, the dissertation tries to use adventure fiction and time coordination as lenses for showing the variety of Britain's global empire, which was confused, arbitrary, and frequently cruel, and show how contemporaries tried to make sense of their globalised, imperial world.

ISBN: 9798381027587Subjects--Topical Terms:

3563448
British Empire.

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