Time on a Human Scale Experiencing the Present in Europe, 1860-1930

Julian Wright, Northumbria University,Allegra Fryxell, University of Cambridge

Julian Wright is a modern historian concerned with time, individual life-writing, culture and politics. Wright has published two monographs on ideas, political culture, and time in France and edits the journal French History. Wright was a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford and taught
history at Durham University until 2017, when he moved to Northumbria University.


Allegra Fryxell is a cultural historian of modern Europe interested in the interactions between the arts and sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Fryxell is currently completing two monographs on time in the fin de siècle and the biography of a mid-century oil
industrialist. Following her Research Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge from 2017 to 2021, Fryxell will be a member of the Chair for Science Studies at ETH Zürich.

List of Illustrations
Note on Contributors
Introduction: Time on a human scale, 1860-1940, Julian Wright
Conflicting Presents in Political Culture
Revolution, restoration, regeneration: historical cycles and the politics of time in Spain, 1870-1931, Javier Fernández-Sebastián and Gonzalo Capellán
Fighting time in Ireland: temporality, time reform and the Irish present, Eve Morrison
Irregular rhythm: empire and ideas of the present in interwar France, Alexandra Paulin-Booth
The everyday and the eternal: English interwar Conservatism and the political present, Emily Robinson
Creating the Cultural Present
Collecting and the contemporary antiquarian: documenting the present in fin-de-siècle Paris, Tom Stammers
H. G. Wells's The Time Machine: tales of time and space, Simon J. James
Music and the aesthetics of appearing, Julian Johnson
Embodied time: synchronizing 'somatic time' in modern dance and psychodrama, 1900-1930, Allegra Fryxell
Painting the present after impressionism: Pierre Bonnard and time's continuous duration, Lucy Whelan
Being Present Through the Time of the First World War
Jean Jaurès and the democratic present, Julian Wright
'Time and the soldier': experiences of time in the Great War, Nicolas Beaupré
Dates and days: the Printemps agenda, temporality and gender in the First World War, Sonia Wilson
Eschatological presentism in Protestant German theology of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Lucian Hölscher
Afterword: The human scale of time and the influenza pandemic of 1918, Allegra Fryxell
Index