Includes bibliographical references (p.263-278) and index
Cover; TIME AND THE MOMENT IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND SOCIETY; CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; NINETEENTH-CENTURY TECHNOLOGY AND TEMPORALITY; OVERVIEW OF CHAPTERS; CRITICAL CONTEXTS AND OBJECTIVES; CHAPTER 1 A brief history of the moment; OVERVIEW; MOMENTS AND MINUTES; ASSOCIATIONISM AND ASSOCIATION PSYCHOLOGY; ASSOCIATIONISM AND LITERATURE; SITUATIONS; THE RELIGIOUS MOMENT; METHODIST TEMPORALITY; KIERKEGAARD'S MOMENT; LAOCOÖN'S LEGACY; THE INSTANTANEOUS IMAGE; FLASH POETRY; CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 2 The economic mediation of timeOVERVIEW; "MOMENTS ARE THE ELEMENTS OF PROFIT"; FASTER AND LONGER; THE WORKING DAY; THE JUST PRICE; LABOR MONEY; THE MELANCHOLY PAST OF LABOR TIME; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 3 Pie'd; OVERVIEW; THE STRING OF PEARLS; SUMMARY, SO FAR; "THE TRADESMAN'S DAUGHTER"; CHAPTER 4 Dickens's peripatetic novels; THE CHASE; MOMENTS OR NOVELS?; DAY AND NIGHT WALKS; BLEAK HOUSE; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 5 ADAM BEDE AND THE REDEMPTION OF TIME; OVERVIEW; ELIOT'S MOMENTS; "THE LAST MOMENT"; A METHODISM OF TIME; SPOTS OF TIME; THE CHRONOTOPE OF SUFFERING; CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 6 Daniel Deronda: Eliot's anti-epiphanic novelOVERVIEW; ANTI-EPIPHANY; JEWISH, CHRISTIAN, AND DARWINIAN PLOTS; A STREET SCENE, ON THE RIVER; THE SCRIPTURAL BODY AND ITS ELISIONS; WRITING, SPEECH, AND ANCESTRAL LIFE; ELIOT AND BERGSONISM; DEATH OR DURATION?; THE INSTANTANEOUS TIME LIMIT; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 7 Panic in Lord Jim; OVERVIEW; THE MISSING MOMENT; TENSES IN TENSION; ANIMAL JIM; TEMPORAL MYOPIA; TWENTY-SEVEN MINUTES; TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES; MOMENTS OF FORECLOSURE; CONCLUSION; Conclusion: Lost duration; EXEGETES OF THE MOMENT; THE MOMENT EXPLODES; LUKÁCS'S PHOTOGRAPH
WILLIAM AND HENRY JAMESMARCEL PROUST; VIRGINIA WOOLF; SUMMARY ON THE SUBJECT OF NOVELS; A SLIVER OF TIME; STUCK IN THE MOMENT; Notes; References; Index;