Bryony Randall explores the twin concepts of daily time and of everyday lifethrough the writing of several major modernist authors. The book begins with acontex... » 

Bryony Randall explores the twin concepts of daily time and of everyday lifethrough the writing of several major modernist authors. The book begins with acontextualising chapter on the psychologists William James and Henri Bergson.It goes on to devote chapters to Dorothy Richardson Gertrude Stein H. D. andVirginia Woolf. These experimental writers she argues reveal everyday lifeand daily time as rich and strange not simply a banal backdrop to moreimportant events. Moreover Randall argues that paying attention to theeveryday and daily time can be politically empowering and subversive. Thespecific social and cultural context of the early twentieth century is one inwhich the concept of daily time is particularly strongly challenged. Byexamining Modernisms engagement with or manifestation of this notion of dailytime she reveals a totally new perspective on their concerns and complexities. «