Durée as Einstein in the Heart Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf 1st Edition by Candice Lee Kent 1003860693 9781003860693

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ISBN-13 :  9781003860693

Author:  Candice Lee Kent  

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 time, in Jacob’s Room (1922) and Mrs Dalloway (1925) relates to Bergson’s temporal theories. This is followed by a discussion on the role Bergson’s thinking played in the early formulation of Butts’s ideas of time, and an analysis of how Bergson’s ideas emerge in the short story ‘Angele au Couvent’ (1923), concluding by highlighting points of contrast in the engagements of Woolf and Butts. The book then documents the growth of Butts’s interest in Einstein’s ideas and shows how she amalgamates these with Bergson’s thinking in her journals and in the most intense of her fictional engagement with Einstein’s ideas, the novel Death of Felicity Taverner (1932). It discusses Butts’s responses to the popular science genre and examines the important role played by J. W. N. Sullivan and Arthur Eddington in the development of her understanding, and interpretation, of physics. It concludes with a discussion of Butts’s antisemitic characterisation of Kralin, as purveyor of corrupted science, in contrast with the Taverners, who are conscious of durée and delight in the abstractions of scientific truth.

Durée as Einstein-in-the-Heart: Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf 1st table of contents:

Part I Introduction and Background
1 Introduction
Notes
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
Notes
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)
Notes
4 Durée in Mary Butts’s ‘Angele au Couvent’ (1923)
Mary Butts: Storm Goddess
Butts’s Journal References to Bergson
‘Angele au Couvent’ (1923)
Notes
5 Clock Time and Modernist Paralysis
Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Comparing Woolf and Butts
Notes
Part III Einstein
6 Mary Butts and Popular Science
Notes
7 Mary Butts and J. W. N. Sullivan
Notes
8 From Bergson to Einstein
Notes
9 The Nature of Space in Death of Felicity Taverner (1932)
Notes
10 Arthur Eddington and Space-Time
Notes
11 Scientific Pornography
Notes
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography

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