Book contents
- Scale, Crisis, and the Modern Novel
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Scale, Crisis, and the Modern Novel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Rescaling Romance
- Chapter 2 Infinitesimal Lives
- Chapter 3 Joseph Conrad and the Scalability of Empire
- Chapter 4 Virginia Woolf and the Problem of Generations
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Introduction
Extreme Measures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2023
Book contents
- Scale, Crisis, and the Modern Novel
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Scale, Crisis, and the Modern Novel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Rescaling Romance
- Chapter 2 Infinitesimal Lives
- Chapter 3 Joseph Conrad and the Scalability of Empire
- Chapter 4 Virginia Woolf and the Problem of Generations
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Summary
Imagining what the earth might look like in the year 802701 seems absurd. The date is unfathomably distant: some 160 times longer than the roughly 5,000 years that comprise all of recorded human history. What could we hope to know about such a remote moment in time? What methods could we use to speculate so far into the future? How could any knowledge we generated in the process be made relevant or meaningful to our daily lives in the present? The sheer size of what this number signifies – the astonishing magnitudes of time it invokes – makes the task of narrating it seem inherently unrealistic.
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- Scale, Crisis, and the Modern NovelExtreme Measures, pp. 1 - 35Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023