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The first anthology to provide a synthesis of recent scholarship on how time shapes our thinking about literature.
List of contents
Introduction Thomas Allen; Part I. Origins: 1. Time and aesthetics Michael Clune; 2. Reading in time Mark Currie; 3. Time and genre Rebecca Bushnell; 4. Time and theatre Matthew Wagner; 5. Sacred and secular Sue Zemka; 6. Ecologies of time Tobias Menely; Part II. Development: 7. Literature, time, and scientific revolutions Jocelyn Holland; 8. Untimely objects: temporal studies and the new materialism Nick Yablon; 9. Temporalities of writing: time and difference after structuralism Ian Maclachlan; 10. Time and media J. K. Barret; 11. Technology and time: clocks, time machines, and speculation Charles Tung; 12. Historicism Jeffrey Insko; Part III. Application: 13. Time and the literary archive Michelle Sizemore; 14. Time, empire, and nation Edward Larkin; 15. Race, writing, and time Daylanne English; 16. Time and the literature of globalization Adam Barrows; 17. Time and the return to form: reading Nabokov, reading Poe Cindy Weinstein; 18. Narrative and narratology Jesse Matz; 19. Queer temporalities: space-ing time and the subject Michelle Wright; 20. In the spiral of history: gestational temporalities and indigenous women's writings on the knowledge of sexual difference Julia Emberley.
About the author
Thomas M. Allen is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa and the author of A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (2008).
Summary
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 'the temporal turn', cut across and illuminate research in every field of literature, as well as interdisciplinary approaches drawing upon history, philosophy, anthropology, and the natural sciences.
