Rethinking Secular Time In Victorian England Stefan Fisherhyrem by Stefan Fisher-høyrem 9783031092848, 3031092848 instant download after payment.

This open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in nineteenth-century technological networks: the Victorian railway network and its temporal standardisation and synchronisation, the networks of daily news production and distribution with their intense pursuit of immediate access to events, and the networks circulating inimitable Bank of England notes meticulously made to embody the gold standard. Untethering the concept of secularity from questions of ‘religion’ and its ‘others’, Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England offers an innovative rethinking of the history of secularisation that will appeal to students, scholars, and everyone interested in secularity, Victorian culture, the history of technology, and the temporalities of modernity.