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Against the Event: The Everyday and Evolution of Modernist Narrative

This 100,000-word book both forwards a new interpretation of modernist narrative, and constitutes a major intervention into one of the most important contemporary philosophical debates: the nature of the ‘event’. After a long and theoretically rigorous introduction, the individual chapters deal with works by Gustave Flaubert, H.G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, and James Joyce. Ten years in the making, this monograph is at once a history of literary modernism from its earliest developments in mid-nineteenth-century France to its full flowering in the 1920s, and an important contribution to recent theoretical explorations of the ‘event’.