Henri Bergson and British Modernism

Mary Ann Gillies teaches English at Simon Fraser University and is the author of Henri Bergson and British Modernism. Aurelea Mahood teaches nineteenth-century and twentieth-century literature at Capilano College.

• Henri Bergson - antecedents, philosophy and context; Bergson and British culture; charting Bergson's theories of a modernist aesthetics; T.S. Eliot - the poet; Virginia Woolf - Bergsonian experiments in representation and consciousness; James Joyce - fiction as the flux of experience; Dorothy Richardson - the subjective experience of time; Joseph Conrad - Bergsonian ideas of memory and comedy.

"The value of Henri Bergson and British Modernism lies in its evaluation of the extent and force of Bergson's influence on early modernism in Britain. Nowhere as comprehensively as here has the terrain been mapped and all the fragments brought together." John Xiros Cooper, Department of English, University of British Columbia.