Victorian Time

1. Introduction
Trish Ferguson

2. The Best of Time, The Worst of Time: Temporal Consciousness in Dickens
Daragh Downes

3. Emptying Time in Anthony Trollope’s The Warden
Jarlath Killeen

4. Hardy’s Wessex and the Birth of Industrial Subjectivity
Trish Ferguson

5. ‘You Are Too Slow’: Time in Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days
Jane Suzanne Carroll

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

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

8. ‘The Honest Application of the Obvious’: The Scientific Futurity of H.G. Wells
Miles Link

9. ‘The End of Time’: M.P. Shiel and the ‘Apocalyptic Imaginary’
Ailise Bulfin

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

Keywords: Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory