Against the Event: The Everyday and the Evolution of Modernist Narrative investigates how
a modernity famed for temporal acceleration-from Benjamin's' shock'and'distraction'to the …

The rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic
loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a spurned lover. The realist novel …

This book explores how classical and Shakespearean tragedy has shaped the temporality of
crisis on the stage and in time-travel films and videogames. In turn, it uncovers how …

1. Tony Tanner argues that “marriage is the central subject for the bourgeois novel”(Adultery
15). For work that discusses the importance of marriage and the marriage plot to the novel …

Time and Literature features twenty essays on topics from aesthetics and narratology to
globalisation and queer temporalities, and showcases how time studies, often referred to as' …

В диссертационном исследовании освещается проблема системного описания
категорий метатекста и времени как прагматических факторов смыслопорождения в …

The nineteenth-century novel is stuffed with meat-recall Catherine's refusal to eat her goose
after Heathcliff's flogging in Wuthering Heights (1847), Pip's theft of pork pie for Magwitch in …

Many works of modernist literature and art aspired to the condition of time machines. While
the early phases of modernism's history contain the first appearance of such a device in HG …

This study examines the relationship between history and the writing of historical and
speculative fiction through discussion of the methods writers use to build history into a novel …

Bridging modernist studies and science fiction scholarshipModernism and Time Machines
places the fascination with time in canonical works of twentieth-century literature and art side …