Modernism and Time Machines

Charles M. Tung

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Charles M. Tung, Seattle University

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: October 2019
Print publication year:: 2019
Online ISBN:: 9781474431354

Subjects:: Literature, English Literature: General Interest
Series:: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture

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Modernism and Time Machines places the fascination with time in canonical works of twentieth-century literature and art side-by-side with the rise of time-travel narratives and alternate histories in popular culture. Both modernism and this cardinal trope of science fiction produce a range of effects and insights that go beyond the exhilarations of simply sliding back and forth in history. Together the modernist time-obsession and the fantasy of moving in time help us to rethink the shapes of time, the consistency of timespace and the nature of history.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of Figures
pp vi-vii

Acknowledgements
pp viii-x

Series Editors' Preface
pp xi-xii

Introduction: Modernism, Time Machines and the Defamiliarisation of Time
pp 1-34

1 - The Heterochronic Past and Sidewise Historicity: T. S. Eliot, Pablo Picasso and Murray Leinster
pp 35-78

2 - Alternate History and the Presence of Other Presents: Virginia Woolf, Philip K. Dick and Christopher Nolan
pp 79-121

3 - Time Lags and Differential Pace: Bullet Time, William Faulkner and Jessica Hagedorn
pp 122-165

4 - Temporal Scale, the Far Future and Inhuman Times: Foresight in Wells and Woolf, Time Travel in Olaf Stapledon and Terrence Malick
pp 166-211

Conclusion
pp 212-216

Bibliography
pp 217-241

Index
pp 242-248

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