Literature and Modern Time

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘It was in that way that we used to talk, in July, 1914, of Armageddon’: Wartime in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End Tetralogy

Chapter 3 Gatsby’s Defunct Clock and the Philosophy of Time

Chapter 4 ‘Perpetual Recurrence’: The Arrest of Time in Decadent Poetry

Chapter 5 Eternity Glimpsed and Time Regained: Marcel Proust’s Ontological Time

Chapter 6 The ‘Fountain of Consciousness Novel’: Dorothy Richardson, Henri Bergson, Gustav Geley

Chapter 8 ‘Pure Time’ and the Female Psyche: Idealism, Psychoanalysis and the Representation of Time in May Sinclair’s Fiction

Chapter 9 J. W. Dunne: The Time Traveller

Chapter 10 ‘To-Day and To-Morrow’: Modernism and Futurology