TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aino Mäkikalli
PY  - 2021
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - From Eternity to Time
T2  - Conceptions of Time in Daniel Defoe’s Novels
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1102434
N2  - This study examines different conceptions of time in Daniel Defoe’s (1660-1731) novels. The temporal aspects of the novels are surveyed, taking into account the historical situation of the novel as a genre and contemporary conceptions of time. The modernisation process of the Western world serves as a wider context of the study, as present research indicates that Defoe’s novels exemplify a multilayered shift from ‘pre-modern’ Western conceptions of time to those of the modern age. The author also explores gendered time and economic and cultural values of time in Defoe’s novels. The book contributes a fresh analysis of Defoe’s novels and demonstrates the crucial relation between historical-cultural conceptions of time and the historically changing genre of the novel.
KW  - Time and Defoe, Calendar, Defoe, Daniel, Zeit (Motiv), Time, Chronology, Cyclical History
LA  - English
ER  -