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

IntroductionPart 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 TetralogyGatsby's Defunct Clock and the Philosophy of Time'Perpetual Recurrence': The Arrest of Time in Decadent Poetry.Part II Glimpses of EternityEternity Glimpsed and Time Regained: Marcel Proust's Ontological TimeThe '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 FictionJ. W. Dunne: The Time Traveller'To-Day and To-Morrow': Modernism and Futurology