Modernism, Time Machines, and the Defamiliarization of Time

Literature and Modern Time

“…7 The ground-breaking work of scientists such as Albert Einstein and Henri Poincaré quickly permeated the public consciousness, as Michael Whitworth has described,8 while the solar eclipse experiment that proved Einstein's theory was being organised by A.S. Eddington in the last year of the war. In philosophy, the end of the decade that included the International Meridian Conference saw the publication of Henri Bergson's thesis Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience (1889) and William James's Principles of Psychology (1890).…”