Literature and Modern Time: Technological Modernity; Glimpses of Eternity; Experiments with Time

Introduction Part I Technological Modernity '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 Gatsby's Defunct Clock and the Philosophy of Time 'Perpetual Recurrence': The Arrest of Time in Decadent Poetry. Part II Glimpses of Eternity Eternity Glimpsed and Time Regained: Marcel Proust's Ontological Time The 'Fountain of Consciousness Novel': Dorothy Richardson, Henri Bergson, Gustav Geley 'Time's Renewal': Death and Immortality in Thomas Hardy's 'Emma Poems' Part III Experiments with Time 'Pure Time' and the Female Psyche: Idealism, Psychoanalysis and the Representation of Time in May Sinclair's Fiction J. W. Dunne: The Time Traveller 'To-Day and To-Morrow': Modernism and Futurology