The Man Who Dreamed Tomorrow: The Life and Times of J W Dunne (Review-Essay)

Potter, David

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dc.contributor.author	Potter, David
dc.date.accessioned	2025-04-22T22:34:49Z
dc.date.available	2025-04-22T22:34:49Z
dc.date.issued	2024	en_AU
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/2123/33828
dc.description.abstract	A review-essay for Nabokov Online Journal about 'The Man Who Dreamed Tomorrow: The Life of J. W. Dunne' (2024) by Guy Inchbald, the first full-length book on the influential British aeronaut and time philosopher John William Dunne (1875–1949). It explores Vladimir Nabokov’s engagement with Dunne’s books—especially 'An Experiment with Time' and 'The Serial Universe'—in both his dream diary and fiction. Dunne emerges as a feverish prophet of multidimensional time, whose unique blend of pseudoscience, prophetic vision, and imaginative brilliance clearly informed the writing of Nabokov’s 'Ada, or Ardor' (1969).	en_AU
dc.language.iso	en	en_AU
dc.publisher	Dalhousie University, Department of Russian Studies	en_AU
dc.relation.ispartof	Nabokov Online Journal	en_AU
dc.rights	Copyright All Rights Reserved	en_AU
dc.subject	Vladimir Nabokov	en_AU
dc.subject	H. G. Wells	en_AU
dc.subject	J. W. Dunne	en_AU
dc.subject	Time in literature	en_AU
dc.subject	Philosophy of Time	en_AU
dc.subject	Dreams in literature	en_AU
dc.subject	Literary Biography	en_AU
dc.subject	Science and Literature	en_AU
dc.title	The Man Who Dreamed Tomorrow: The Life and Times of J W Dunne (Review-Essay)	en_AU
dc.type	Article	en_AU
dc.type.pubtype	Publisher's version	en_AU
usyd.faculty	SeS faculties schools::Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences::School of Languages and Cultures	en_AU
usyd.department	European Studies	en_AU
usyd.citation.volume	18	en_AU
workflow.metadata.only	No	en_AU