Shapes of time in British twenty-first century Quantum fiction

Sonia Front addresses the notion of time and temporality and its various conceptualisations in the theories of the new physics, utilised as a thematic and formal framework in the British novel of the 21st century.

As the Newtonian conception of reality does not provide a reliable framework within which to situate human experience and generate meaning, fiction writers have recognised quantum mechanics as a potent source from which to draw in search of new metaphors.

Front discusses how the quantum has become a part of our understanding of reality, and examines how its concepts and assumptions have been absorbed into the textual structure and content of contemporary literary fiction.