ABSTRACT
This book explored how Virginia Woolf and Mary Butts responded to Bergson’s concept of duration and Einstein’s theories of relativity. It highlighted how circumstances, particularly social networks, as well as personal belief systems, shape the ways in which modernist writers appropriated and re-configured theoretical positions according to the individual concerns of each author. As we evaluate modernist reception of Bergson and Einstein, we encounter a diverse landscape of responses. It is difficult, then, to claim any monolithic or unified modernist response to these theorists. Interpretations were shaped by individual inclinations and beliefs.
