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Twentieth-Century Literature

ISSN 0041-462X

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Times of the Timeless: May Sinclair, British Idealism, and the Stream of Consciousness

Twentieth-Century Literature June 1, 2022 Justin Prystash

This article examines the relationship between British Idealist philosophy and modernist form, particularly the stream of consciousness technique. Idealism was ascendant from the 1870s to the 1920s, and the writer/philosopher May Sinclair participated in its conceptual discourse, finding the British Idealists’ contention that time is unreal an especially valuable insight for her literary...