Marking time : objects, people, and their lives, 1500-1800 / edited by Edward Town & Angela McShane.
Alternate Title(s):
Marking time (Yale Center for British Art)
Published / Created:
New Haven : Yale Center for British Art, [2020]New Haven : Yale University Press
Physical Description:
518 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 27 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Running Like Clockwork? Objects and "Early Modern" Time / Glenn Adamson -- Past Times: Temporalities in Early Modern England / Keith Wrightson -- Anglo-American Artisanal Time: Cumulative, Partially Invisible, Nonlinear, and Episodic / Edward S. Cooke, Jr. -- Marking Transatlantic Time: Britain and the Caribbean / Justin M. Brown -- Time, Measurement, and Authority/ Angela McShane -- Narrative Time and the View from the Nineteenth Century / Gavriella Levy Haskell -- Stopping Time: The Material Culture of Death and Commemoration / Nathan Flis -- Catalogue / all essays by Edward Town -- Epilogue: John H. Bryan Jr.: A Collector's Magical Kingdom / Jenny Saunt.
Subject Terms:
Time perception. | Time and art. | Time and art. | Time perception.
Contributors:
Town, Edward, editor. | McShane, Angela, 1959– editor. | Martin, Courtney J., writer of foreword. | Adamson, Glenn. Running like clockwork? | Yale Center for British Art.