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Time on a Human Scale: Experiencing the Present in Europe, 1860-1930(238 Proceedings of the British Academy)


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How have modern Europeans understood the times in which they live? Many accounts of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe tend to emphasize degeneration or acceleration DS a return to the past, or the rush to the future. This volume, however, shows how writers, artists, politicians and sociologists brought the present into focus by re-casting time in terms of human experience. With fresh contributions from history, politics, literary studies, musicology, cultural studies and art history, it shows how the search for the human present defined the culture, politics and ideas of Western Europe from the 1860s to the 1930s. The pressing search for the human present uncovered in these essays is, if anything, of even greater relevance today.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Note on Contributors Julian Wright: Introduction: Time on a human scale, 1860-1940 Conflicting Presents in Political Culture Javier Fernández-Sebastián and Gonzalo Capellán: Revolution, restoration, regeneration: historical cycles and the politics of time in Spain, 1870-1931 Eve Morrison: Fighting time in Ireland: temporality, time reform and the Irish present Alexandra Paulin-Booth: Irregular rhythm: empire and ideas of the present in interwar France Emily Robinson: The everyday and the eternal: English interwar Conservatism and the political present Creating the Cultural Present Tom Stammers: Collecting and the contemporary antiquarian: documenting the present in fin-de-siècle Paris Simon J. James: H. G. Wells's The Time Machine: tales of time and space Julian Johnson: Music and the aesthetics of appearing Allegra Fryxell: Embodied time: synchronizing 'somatic time' in modern dance and psychodrama, 1900-1930 Lucy Whelan: Painting the present after impressionism: Pierre Bonnard and time's continuous duration Being Present Through the Time of the First World War Julian Wright: Jean Jaurès and the democratic present Nicolas Beaupré: 'Time and the soldier': experiences of time in the Great War Sonia Wilson: Dates and days: the Printemps agenda, temporality and gender in the First World War Lucian Hölscher: Eschatological presentism in Protestant German theology of the late 19th and early 20th centuries Allegra Fryxell: Afterword: The human scale of time and the influenza pandemic of 1918 Index

About the Author :
Julian Wright is a modern historian concerned with time, individual life-writing, culture and politics. Wright has published two monographs on ideas, political culture, and time in France and edits the journal French History. Wright was a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford and taught history at Durham University until 2017, when he moved to Northumbria University. Allegra Fryxell is a cultural historian of modern Europe interested in the interactions between the arts and sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Fryxell is currently completing two monographs on time in the fin de siècle and the biography of a mid-century oil industrialist. Following her Research Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge from 2017 to 2021, Fryxell will be a member of the Chair for Science Studies at ETH Zürich.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780197266977
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 344
  • Series Title: 238 Proceedings of the British Academy
  • Sub Title: Experiencing the Present in Europe, 1860-1930
  • Width: 160 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0197266975
  • Publisher Date: 07 Oct 2021
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 908 gr


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