• Introduction: Late Modernist Chronophobia


• Part I: Blitz-Time Capsules


• 1: Wartime Presentness


• 2: Psychological Blackout


• 3: Stopped Clocks


• Part II: War Time Zones


• 4: The Neutral Hour


• 5: La France à l'heure Anglaise


• 6: The Ecology of English Time


• Part III: The Temporality of Ruins


• 7: The Archaeology of Ruin-Time


• 8: Children of the Ruins


• 9: The Literary Cartography of Ruins


• Coda

Beryl Pong is a Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Sheffield.

Demonstrates how spatial and temporal dislocation were defining traits of the artistic response to the urban bombing campaigns of the Second World War. Studying a range of writers, as well as film, photography, and art, it argues that for civilian populations, aerial bombardment distorts the experience of time itself.