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The culture of time and space, 1880-1918 : with a new preface / Stephen Kern.

By: Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2003.Description: xxxi, 372 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780674021693 (pbk.) :
  • 067402169X (pbk.) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • CB478 .K46 2003
Summary: Stephen Kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and World War I that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space. This overview covers such figures as Proust, Joyce, Mann, H. G. Wells, Gertrude Stein, Freud, Conrad, Einstein, and Picasso, as well as diverse sources of popular culture and the transformation of traditional values. Book jacket. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-362) and index.

Stephen Kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and World War I that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space. This overview covers such figures as Proust, Joyce, Mann, H. G. Wells, Gertrude Stein, Freud, Conrad, Einstein, and Picasso, as well as diverse sources of popular culture and the transformation of traditional values. Book jacket. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

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