Time on a human scale : experiencing the present in Europe, 1860-1930 / edited by Julian Wright and Allegra Fryxell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wright, Julian (Historian), editor.

Fryxell, Allegra, editor.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 238.

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 238

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

Europe, Western--Civilization--19th century.

Europe, Western.

Europe, Western--Civilization--20th century.

Western Europe.

Physical Description:

xii, 344 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"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 - 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : time on a human scal, 1860-1930 / Julian Wright

Part I. Conflicting presents in political culture. Revolution, restoration, regeneration : historical cycles and the politics of time in Spain, 1870-1931 / Javier Fernández-Sebastián and Gonzalo Capellán

Fighting time in Ireland : temporality, time reform and the Irish present / Even Morrison

Irregular rhythm : empire and ideas of the present in interwar France / Alexandra Paulin-Booth

The everyday and the eternal : English interwar conservatism and the political present / Emily Robinson

Part II. Creating the cultural present. Collecting and the contemporary antiquarian : documenting the present in fin-de-siècle Paris / Tom Stammers

H.G. Wells' The Time Machine : tales of time and space / Simon J. James

Music, time and the aesthetics of appearing / Julian Johnson

Embodied time : synchronising "somatic time" in modrn dance and psychodrama, 1900-30 / Allegra Fryxell

Painting the present after impressionism : Pierre Bonnard and time's continuous duration

Part III. Being present through the time of the first world war. Jean Jaurès and the democratic present / Julian Wright

"Time and the soldier" : experieinces of time in the Great War / Nicolas Beaupré

Dates and days : the printemps agenda, temporality and gender in the first world war / Sonia Wilson

Eschatological presentism in Protestant German theology of the late 19th and early 20th centuries / Lucian Hölscher

Afterword : the human scale of time and the influenza pandemic of 1918 / Allegra Fryxell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Current Copyright Fee: GBP5.00 0.

ISBN:

0197266975

9780197266977

OCLC:

1255464554