Modernism, Daily Time and Everyday Life (Electronic book text)

Bryony Randall pursues the concepts of daily time and of everyday life through the writing of several major modernist authors. The book begins with a contextualising chapter on the psychologists William James and Henri Bergson and goes on to devote chapters to Dorothy Richardson, Gertrude Stein, H. D. and Virginia Woolf. These experimental writers reveal everyday life and daily time as rich and strange, not just the banal backdrop to life. Further, the book argues that paying attention to the everyday and daily time can be politically empowering and subversive.