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Durée as Einstein-in-the-Heart: Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf book cover

1st Edition

Durée as Einstein-in-the-Heart Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf

By Candice Lee Kent Copyright 2024
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge
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Durée as Einstein-in-the-Heart traces the trajectory of modernist interaction with Bergson and Einstein through the works of Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) and Mary Butts (1890–1937). It presents an overview of critical approaches that focus on time in Woolf’s novels, and that foreground Bergson in their analyses of Woolf. It then examines how Woolf’s formal experimentation, and theorisation of... Read more

Acknowledgements

 

PART I:  INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND           

 

1. INTRODUCTION      

2. BACKGROUND AND KEY CONCEPTS   

Bergson’s Philosophy of Durée         

Durée and Clock Time          

Einstein’s Theories of Relativity      

Methodology:  Reading Across Scientific and Literary Texts

           

PART II:  BERGSON

 

3. DURATIONAL NARRATIVE, BERGSON’S EPISTEMOLOGY OF SELF AND WOOLF’S THEORISATION OF TIME

Woolf’s Exposure to Bergson’s Ideas           

The Voyage Out (1915) and Night and Day (1919)

Jacob’s Room (1922)

4. DURÉE IN MARY BUTTS’S ‘ANGELE AU COUVENT’ (1923)

Mary Butts: Storm Goddess  

Butts’s Journal References to Bergson          

‘Angele au Couvent’ (1923)  

5. CLOCK TIME AND MODERNIST PARALYSIS  

Mrs Dalloway (1925)

Comparing Woolf and Butts 

 

PART III:  EINSTEIN

           

6. MARY BUTTS AND POPULAR SCIENCE           

7. MARY BUTTS AND J.W.N. SULLIVAN   

8. FROM BERGSON TO EINSTEIN   

9. THE NATURE OF SPACE IN DEATH OF FELICITY TAVERNER (1932)        

10. ARTHUR EDDINGTON AND SPACE-TIME        

11. SCIENTIFIC PORNOGRAPHY

           

CONCLUSION

           

Bibliography  

Index         

Biography

Candice Lee Kent is an independent scholar with a PhD in English from the University of Cambridge. Candice is also the author of a book chapter entitled ‘Science in the Writings of Virginia Woolf and Mary Butts’ in Restoring the Mystery of the Rainbow: Literature’s Reflection of Science (Rodopi: Amsterdam, 2011).

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