Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-204) and index.
Contents
Introduction : modernism and the politics of time -- Standard time, Greenwich, and the cosmopolitan clock -- "Turning from the shadows that follow us": modernist time and the politics of place -- At the limits of imperial time; or, dracula must die! -- "The shortcomings of timetables" : Greenwich, modernism, and the limits of modernity -- "A few hours wrong" : standard time and Indian literature in English -- Conclusion : a postmodern politics of time? Negri's "global phenomenological fabric" and Amis's backward arrow.
