Time, Literature, and Cartography After the Spatial Turn

Adam Barrows is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Director of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University, Canada.  He is the author of The Cosmic Time of Empire and a recipient of the Modern Fiction Studies Margaret Church Memorial Prize.

“This is a thoroughly remarkable book. … Barrows’s approach clearly demonstrates that geo-criticism, combined with textual analysis that is spatial, is up to the task of making apparent complex spatial and temporal configurations in literary narratives.” (Heike Polster,Kronoscope, Issue 20, 2020)

• Introduction: Time and Literature after the Spatial Turn.- Crossing the Date Line: Global Mapping and Temporal Allochrony.- Modernist Panarchies: Woolf, Joyce, and Rhythm.- Mapping Our Tomorrows: Time in Nabokov’s Ada.- The Road I’m On: Mapping the Time of Fantasy in the Work of Salman Rushdie.- Conclusion: Narrative and Other Technologies of Global Mapping.- Notes.- Bibliography.