A revolution in clock technology in England during the 1660s allowed people to measure time more accurately, attend to it more minutely, and possess it more privately than previously imaginable. In Telling Time, Stuart Sherman argues that innovations in prose emerged simultaneously with this technological breakthrough, enabling authors to recount the new kind of time by which England was learning to live and work. Through brilliant readings of Samuel Pepys's diary, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele's daily Spectator, the travel writings of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell,...
A revolution in clock technology in England during the 1660s allowed people to measure time more accurately, attend to it more minutely, and possess i...
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters is a compilation of personal correspondence between two great nineteenth century French writers and contemporaries. The letters reveal often divergent but always profound, effervescent, and fascinating views on art, literature, drama, philosophy, culture, and gossip of the period: an unparalleled window into history, and a rare interior glimpse into the creative psyche of two literary giants.
Translated from the French by A.L. McKenzie (1921), with an introduction by Stuart Sherman.
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters is a compilation of personal correspondence between two great nineteenth century French writers and co...
