Reading the Times

Randall Stevenson is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Born in the north of Scotland, grew up in Glasgow and studied in the universities of Edinburgh and Oxford. Lectured on modern literature in 15 countries in Europe and in Nigeria, South Korea and Egypt. General Editor of the Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain series.

Think there’s nothing left to be said about time in the twentieth-century novel? Read Randall Stevenson’s Reading the Times, and think again. Stevenson gives us a new history of narrative form that is at the same time a compact cultural history of the century.

• Introduction: Picnic Time, Prime Time, Story Time I – ‘All Those Figures’: Joseph Conrad and the Maritimes II – ‘Wheels within Wheels’: D.H. Lawrence, Industrial Time and War TimeIII – Times in the Mind: Modernism in the 1920s IV -- Not Like Old Times: the 1930s to Mid-CenturyV – ‘Time is Over’: Postmodern TimesConclusion: Millennial Times, Perennial Times