Dead Time: Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert) - Paperbackby Elissa Marder (Author) This book explores how modernity gives rise to temporal disorders when time cannot be assimilated and integrated into the realm of lived experience. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's description of the shock experience of modernity through readings of Baudelaire, the book turns to Baudelaire and Flaubert in order to derive insights into the many temporal disorders (such as trauma, addiction, and fetishism) that pervade