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The grating roar of science: Victorian revisions of time (Charles Dickens, Charles Lyell, Gideon Mantell, Alfred, Lord Tennyson).

机译：科学的咆哮声：维多利亚时代的修订版（查尔斯·狄更斯，查尔斯·莱尔，吉迪恩·曼泰尔，阿尔弗雷德，丹尼森勋爵）。

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Excavating Victorian perceptions and revisions of time, this dissertation analyzes scientific, popular, and literary texts that explore questions and hypotheses posed by geology and archaeology. These new sciences discovered a chronology that dwarfed individual experience, and scientists and poets alike employed narrative strategies to rescue the individual from temporal insignificance. Both cowed and empowered by the sea change of scientific revolutions, Victorian writers struggled to chart a course through deep time.; Geology is the subject of the first section, which partners a cultural study of geology's early years with a literary analysis of Tennyson's The Princess (1847). Chapter one focuses on geologists Charles Lyell and Gideon Mantell, both writing in the 1830s and 1840s, who stressed the geologist's power to represent time. Both writers conjoined attention to geological remains with attention to the geologist himself, and they offered the appealing hypothesis that authority over the relics of deep time amounts to authority over time itself. The discussion of geology, time, and authority extends into the next chapter, which offers a close analysis of the medley of science and feminism in The Princess. Crafting a fairy tale in which indifferent Mother Nature rejects deep time in favor of lived time, Tennyson offers a uniformitarian model of reform. The second section addresses archaeology, first in a study of nineteenth-century descriptions of Pompeii and then in an analysis of Dickens's Little Dorrit (1855). Pompeii was a popular subject in poetry, fiction, travel writing, and serial prose. Nineteenth-century observers were especially intrigued with the exhibition of the private, simultaneously preserved and made grotesquely public. Many writers likened the society preserved at Pompeii to their own; some even labeled London the “Pompeii of the future.” The final chapter analyzes Dickens's depiction of London as an archaeological site: private and public ruin imprison and debilitate the novel's characters, who struggle to live with the past. Dickens, like so many nineteenth-century writers, ultimately endorses the possibilities inherent in gradualism and empowers the individual to “move on.”
机译：挖掘维多利亚时代的观念和对时间的修正，本论文分析了科学，通俗和文学著作，探讨了地质和考古学提出的问题和假设。这些新科学发现了一种使个人经历相形见的年表，科学家和诗人都采用叙事策略来使个人摆脱时间上的无关紧要。维多利亚时代的作家既受到科学革命的巨变的鼓舞，又被赋予了权力，他们努力在深远的历程中摸索出路线。地质学是第一部分的主题，第一部分的主题是对地质学早期的文化研究，以及对Tennyson的 The Princess （1847）的文学分析。第一章着重介绍1830和1840年代的地质学家Charles Lyell和Gideon Mantell，他们强调了地质学家代表时间的力量。两位作者将对地质遗迹的关注与对地质学家本人的关注结合在一起，他们提出了一个引人入胜的假设，即对深时遗物的授权等同于对时间本身的授权。关于地质，时间和权威的讨论将延伸到下一章，该章对《公主》 中的科学和女权主义进行了详尽的分析。坦尼森编造了一个童话，其中冷漠的大自然拒绝深沉的时间，转而依靠生存的时间，他提供了一种统一主义的改革模式。第二部分是考古学，首先是对19世纪庞贝古城的研究，然后是狄更斯的 Little Dorrit （1855）的分析。庞贝是诗歌，小说，旅行写作和连续散文中的热门话题。十九世纪的观察家对私人展览特别感兴趣，展览同时进行了保存和怪异地公开。许多作家将庞贝城保存的社会比作自己的社会。有些甚至将伦敦称为“未来的庞贝城”。最后一章分析了狄更斯对伦敦作为考古遗址的描绘：私人和公共废墟的囚禁和使小说人物的角色衰弱，他们难以忍受过去的生活。像许多19世纪的作家一样，狄更斯最终认同渐进主义固有的可能性，并赋予个人“继续前进”的能力。

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    Zimmerman, Virginia Lee-Alice.;

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    University of Virginia.;

  • 授予单位 University of Virginia.;
  • 学科 Literature English.; History of Science.; Anthropology Archaeology.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2001
  • 页码 223 p.
  • 总页数 223
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 自然科学史;古人类学;
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