A republic in time : temporality and social imagination in nineteenth-century America
Explores how transformations in the perception of time shaped American conceptions of democratic society and modern nationhood. This study analyzes cultural artifacts ranging from clocks and scientific treatises to paintings and literary narratives to show how Americans made use of these ideas about time to create visions of American nationhood.
Print Book, English, ©2008
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2008
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780807831793, 9780807858653, 0807831794, 080785865X
145145320
Introduction: Time and modern nationhood
The future republic
Material time
Clockwork nation
Time in the land
Emerson's deep democracy
Conclusion: The ends of time