Durée as Einstein-In-The-Heart traces the trajectory of modernist interaction with Bergson and Einstein through the works of Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) and Mary Butts (1890 - 1937).

Candice Lee Kent is an independent scholar with a PhD in English from the University of Cambridge. Candice is also the author of a book chapter entitled 'Science in the Writings of Virginia Woolf and Mary Butts' in Restoring the Mystery of the Rainbow: Literature's Reflection of Science (Rodopi: Amsterdam, 2011).

PART I: INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND AND KEY CONCEPTS

Bergson's Philosophy of Durée

Durée and Clock Time

Einstein's Theories of Relativity

Methodology: Reading Across Scientific and Literary Texts

PART II: BERGSON

DURATIONAL NARRATIVE, BERGSON'S EPISTEMOLOGY OF SELF AND WOOLF'S THEORISATION OF TIME

Woolf's Exposure to Bergson's Ideas

The Voyage Out (1915) and Night and Day (1919)

Jacob's Room (1922)

DURÉE IN MARY BUTTS'S 'ANGELE AU COUVENT' (1923)

Mary Butts: Storm Goddess

Butts's Journal References to Bergson

'Angele au Couvent' (1923)

CLOCK TIME AND MODERNIST PARALYSIS

Mrs Dalloway (1925)

Comparing Woolf and Butts

PART III: EINSTEIN

MARY BUTTS AND POPULAR SCIENCE

MARY BUTTS AND J.W.N. SULLIVAN

FROM BERGSON TO EINSTEIN

THE NATURE OF SPACE IN DEATH OF FELICITY TAVERNER (1932)

ARTHUR EDDINGTON AND SPACE-TIME

SCIENTIFIC PORNOGRAPHY

PART IV: CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

PRIMARY

SECONDARY