Article ID: CBB289863249

The Passing Hour: 1930s Real-Time, Vile Bodies, and the Ethics of Reading (2021)

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Understanding real-time as an orientation toward the present and its documentation as opposed to a concrete (digitally determined) technological affordance, this article locates real-time in the burgeoning photographic tabloid culture of 1930s Britain. It traces how technical innovations in information transmission and circulation during the interwar years impacted the circuits between readers and their "real life" environment. Moreover, by engaging with Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies (1930), a text strung between novel and tabloid supplement, it suggests how real-time's newly habituated, melancholic modes of reading might push individuals to stand by in the face of individual pain and mass violence.

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Authors & Contributors
Topham, Johnathan R.
Campbell-Kelly, Martin
Dames, Nicholas
Dawson, Gowan
Edwards, Elizabeth
Krajewski, Markus
Journals
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
History and Anthropology
International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology
Lychnos
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Publishers
Yale University Press
Oxford University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Princeton University Press
University of Chicago Press
University of Virginia Press
Concepts
Reading
Information technology
Books
Ethics
Literature
Science and literature
People
Hooke, Robert
Owen, Richard
Power, Henry
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
17th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
United States
Ireland
Germany
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