Reading the Times : : Temporality and History in Twentieth-Century Fiction / / Randall Stevenson.
A wide-ranging study of shifting temporalities and their literary consequences in twentieth-century fictionFrom the Prime Meridian Conference of 1884 to the celebration of the millennium in 2000; from the fiction of Joseph Conrad to the novels of William Gibson and W.G. Sebald, Reading the Times off...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 12 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: Picnic Time, Prime Time, Story Time
- 2. ‘All Those Figures’: Joseph Conrad and the Maritimes
- 3. ‘Wheels within Wheels’: D. H. Lawrence, Industrial Time and War Time
- 4. Times in the Mind: Modernism in the 1920s
- 5. Not Like Old Times: The 1930s to Mid-Century
- 6. ‘Time is Over’: Postmodern Times
- 7. Conclusion: Millennial Times, Perennial Times
- Bibliography
- Index