{"product_id":"forms-of-time-newton-to-austen-paperback","title":"Forms of Time, Newton to Austen - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJesse Molesworth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas: the separation of time from its measure, or what Newton described as the distinction between \"absolute\" and \"relative\" time. Jesse Molesworth argues that most experienced this encounter not firsthand, through direct exposure to Newton's writings, but secondhand, through a variety of smaller encounters in art, science, culture, and literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Enriching our understanding of the connection between science and literature, \u003ci\u003eForms of Time, Newton to Austen\u003c\/i\u003e offers the rise of the novel as a case study to examine the relationship between transformations in culture and transformations in literary forms. Through incisive readings of works by Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, and others, Molesworth reveals that the novel arose by making visible what culture does not or cannot see itself. The emergent \"realist\" novel did not adopt Newtonian claims wholesale. While the novel accommodated the new physicalist sense of \"absolute time\" in theme, its formal techniques offered something else: an escape, however temporary, from the claims made by Newtonian time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJesse Molesworth\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eChance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Realism, Probability, Magic\u003c\/i\u003e (2010).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 270\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 28, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48459488624889,"sku":"9781503646377","price":47.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/gyTiXlEFf59781503646377.webp?v=1780170801","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/forms-of-time-newton-to-austen-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}