This book scrutinizes physical temporal and psychological strata across early twentieth-century literature focusing on geological and archaeological tropes and conceptions of the stratified psyche. The essays explore psychological perceptions from practices of envisioning that mimic looking at a painting photograph or projected light to the comprehension of the palimpsestic complexities of language memory and time. This collection is the first to see early twentieth-century physical temporal and psychological strata interact across a range of canonical and popular authors working in a variety of genres from theatre to ghost stories childrenâs literature to modernist magna opera. . Language: English