Dure as Einstein-in-the-Heart: Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf [Hardcover]

PART I:? INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND???????????

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INTRODUCTION??????

BACKGROUND AND KEY CONCEPTS???

Bergsons Philosophy of Dur?e?????????

Dur?e and Clock Time??????????

Einsteins Theories of Relativity??????

Methodology:? Reading Across Scientific and Literary Texts

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PART II:? BERGSON

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DURATIONAL NARRATIVE, BERGSONS EPISTEMOLOGY OF SELF AND WOOLFS THEORISATION OF TIME

Woolfs Exposure to Bergsons Ideas???????????

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

Jacobs Room (1922)

DUR?E IN MARY BUTTSS ANGELE AU COUVENT (1923)

Mary Butts: Storm Goddess??

Buttss Journal References to Bergson??????????

Angele au Couvent (1923)??

CLOCK TIME AND MODERNIST PARALYSIS??

Mrs Dalloway (1925)

Comparing Woolf and Butts?

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PART III:? EINSTEIN

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MARY BUTTS AND POPULAR SCIENCE???????????

MARY BUTTS AND J.W.N. SULLIVAN???

FROM BERGSON TO EINSTEIN???

THE NATURE OF SPACE IN DEATH OF FELICITY TAVERNER (1932)????????

ARTHUR EDDINGTON AND SPACE-TIME????????

SCIENTIFIC PORNOGRAPHY

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PART IV:? CONCLUSION

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BIBLIOGRAPHY??????

PRIMARY?????

SECONDARY???????????

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 VilóÊ