![]() Wells’s The Time Machine (1895).1 In his first novel, Wells invents not just a new plot but a new chronotope. Wells’s The Time Machine to postmodern science fiction as a brief history of a-historicity.Īs opposed to most narrative conventions, time travel originates in a single text, H. ![]() In this essay, I will trace the development of time travel, from H. The postmodern trouble with time finds its expression in the “spatial turn” in narrativity, which includes the topos of time travel (Smethurst 37). ![]() The roots of this ideology are in the evolutionary debate of the fin-de-siècle but its contemporary offshoots have become part of postmodernity’s problematic relationship with time and history. What is at stake in treating time “as a kind of space,” politically, philosophically, and narratologically? While time travel has often been dismissed as merely a popular science-fictional gimmick, it seems far more productive to regard it as an inscription of a specific ideology of temporality. ![]() “‘Scientific people,’ proceeded the Time Traveller, after the pause required for the proper assimilation of this, ‘know very well that Time is only a kind of Space’” (The Time Machine 268). ![]()
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