Introduction – Effie Rentzou

Part I: 1913, French modernism and historical time
Introduction
1 Prehistoric Proust – André Benhaïm
2 Fantômas and the shudder of history – Jonathan P. Eburne
3 Inventing, collecting and classifying in the margins: the work of Eugène Atget, a shift in photographic representation – Guillaume Le Gall
4 The anxious centre – Effie Rentzou
5 1913, the year of the arrière-garde? – William Marx

Part II: 1913, 'French' and 'modernism' in question
Introduction
6 A modernism that has not yet been: untimely Segalen – Christopher Bush
7 On situating French modernism: the strange location(s) of Le Grand Meaulnes – David R. Ellison
8 Les Caves du Vatican and the real novel – Gerald Prince
9 1913, between peace and war: Chagall’s Homage to Apollinaire and the European avant-garde – Annette Becker

Part III: 1913, French modernism and intermediality
Introduction
10 Camille Flammarion's flash-forward: the cinematicization of French thought and aesthetics (1867–1913) – Christophe Wall-Romana
11 How ‘simultaneous’ is it? Revisiting the Delaunay–Cendrars collaboration on La Prose du Transsibérien – Marjorie Perloff
12 Mallarmé’s modernity in 1913 – Virginie A. Duzer
13 Poetry displaced: Nijinsky, Delaunay, Duchamp – Mary Shaw
14 Behind Picasso's pins – Lisa Florman

Part IV: Coda: on modernism, beyond France and 1913
15 1913, the future in the past – Jean-Michel Rabaté
16 The paradox and promise of the 'new' French Modernist Studies – Susan Stanford Friedman