| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 262 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Contents |
Introduction: Picnic Time, Prime Time, Story Time -- 'All Those Figures': Joseph Conrad and the Maritimes -- 'Wheels within Wheels': D.H. Lawrence, Industrial Time and War Time -- Times in the Mind: Modernism in the 1920s -- Not Like Old Times: The 1930s to Mid-Century -- 'Time is Over': Postmodern Times -- Conclusion: Millennial Times, Perennial Times. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index. |
| Summary |
From 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 offers fresh insight into modern narrative. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Time in literature.
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Time in literature. |
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Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
History in literature.
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History in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Title |
Temporality and history in 20th century fiction |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Stevenson, Randall. Reading the times. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018] 9781474401555 (OCoLC)1000584853 |
| ISBN |
9781474401562 (electronic book) |
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1474401562 (electronic book) |
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9781474432344 |
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1474432344 |
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9781474401555 |
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1474401554 |
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