Victorian Time

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Trish Ferguson

   Pages 1-15

3. The Best of Time, The Worst of Time: Temporal Consciousness in Dickens

   • Daragh Downes

   Pages 16-37

4. Emptying Time in Anthony Trollope’s The Warden

   • Jarlath Killeen

   Pages 38-56

5. Hardy’s Wessex and the Birth of Industrial Subjectivity

   • Trish Ferguson

   Pages 57-76

6. ‘You Are Too Slow’: Time in Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days

   • Jane Suzanne Carroll

   Pages 77-94

7. Brave New Worlds: Samuel Butler’s Erewhon, Settler Colonialism and New Zealand Mean Time

   • Jenny McDonnell

   Pages 95-111

8. ‘Primitive Man’ and Media Time in H.M. Stanley’s Through the Dark Continent

   • Brian H. Murray

   Pages 112-131

9. ‘The Honest Application of the Obvious’: The Scientific Futurity of H.G. Wells

   • Miles Link

   Pages 132-152

10. ‘The End of Time’: M.P. Shiel and the ‘Apocalyptic Imaginary’

    • Ailise Bulfin

    Pages 153-177

11. ‘Gone Into Mourning … for the Death of the Sun’: Victorians at the End of Time

    • Darryl Jones

    Pages 178-195

12. Back Matter

    Pages 196-219

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Victorian Time examines how literature of the era registers the psychological impact of the onset of a modern, industrialized experience of time as time-saving technologies, such as steam-powered machinery, aimed at making economic life more efficient, signalling the dawn of a new age of accelerated time.

• Charles Dickens
• English literature
• time
• British and Irish Literature

"Victorian Time provides a compelling, informative, and thorough study of Victorian literature in an age of rapid temporal change, and it is attentive to temporality across a range of topics that include media, science, technology, and colonialism. Ambitious in scope and precise in detail, this collection is a valuable contribution to scholarship on Victorian time in all of its multiplicity and complication." - Victorian Periodicals Review

• Liverpool Hope University, UK

  Trish Ferguson

AILISE BULFIN Doctoral Candidate, Ireland JANE SUZANNE CARROLL School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland DARAGH DOWNES School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland DARRYL JONES Senior Lecturer, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland JARLATH KILLEEN Lecturer, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland MILES LINK Doctoral Candidate, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland JENNY MCDONNELL Lecturer, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland BRIAN H. MURRAY Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University, UK

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