The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918
, by Kern, Stephen- ISBN: 9780674021693 | 067402169X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/30/2003
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.