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100 1 $aZimmerman, Virginia.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006095330
245 10 $aExcavating Victorians /$cVirginia Zimmerman.
260 $aAlbany :$bState University of New York Press,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $ax, 231 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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490 1 $aSUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 207-223) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction: "All Relics Here Together" -- $g2.$tThe Victorian Geologist: Reading Remains and Writing Time -- $g3.$tTennyson's Fairy Tale of Science -- $g4.$tAccidental Archaeology in London and Pompeii -- $g5.$tDickens among the Ruins -- $g6.$tFinal Fragments.
520 1 $a"Excavating Victorians examines nineteenth-century Britain's reaction to the revelations about time and natural history provided by the new sciences of geology and archaeology. The Victorians faced one of the greatest paradigm shifts in history: the bottom dropped out of time, and they had to reinvent their relationship to the earth and to time and history. These new sciences took the Victorians by storm, inundating them with fossils, skeletal remains, and potsherds - artifacts, or traces, that served at once as relics from the past, objects in the present, and markers of time's passage. Virginia Zimmerman explores how the Victorians utilized a nexus of literature, excavation, and reflections on time to ease anxieties about the individual's fate in the face of time's overwhelming expanse. The function of artifacts is also considered through careful readings of Tennyson's The Princess and Dickens's Little Dorrit and Our Mutual Friend. Zimmerman shows how these literary works make use of the language, tropes, and even generic conventions of excavation, and how they participate in the effort to rescue the individual from temporal insignificance."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102754
650 0 $aGeology in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004566
650 0 $aArchaeology in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93008414
650 0 $aSpace and time in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125914
650 0 $aTime$xPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112898
650 0 $aAuthors, English$y19th century$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aLiterature and science$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107017
650 0 $aLiterature and history$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009129898
830 0 $aSUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00030210
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip077/2006101369.html
852 00 $bglx$hPR468.G38$iZ56 2008