Tools
ToolsValdez, Jessica R. (2018) "Our impending doom": Seriality's end in late-Victorian proto-dystopian novels. Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, 9 (1). pp. 1-29. ISSN 1947-6574
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)Abstract
This paper examines utopian/dystopian time and serial form in several late-nineteenth-century proto-dystopian novels, including Anthony Trollope's The Fixed Period, James De Mille's A Strange Manuscript in a Copper Cylinder, and H. G. Wells's The Time Machine. Through mingling the futuristic orientation of utopias and the presentist cause-and-effect experience of serial form, late nineteenth-century dystopias do not set these other worlds in the distant future; rather, they ask readers to see signs of their mortality in the everyday. In doing so, these paradoxical temporalities combine to highlight the finiteness of late-Victorian institutions in the face of more expansive depictions experience.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | Funding Information: The author would like to thank the University Grants Committee in Hong Kong for providing the Early Career Scheme funding that made this article possible. Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2019 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | dystopia,novel,serial form,temporality,utopia,communication,visual arts and performing arts ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3315 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing |
| Related URLs: | |
| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Nov 2022 14:30 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Mar 2025 11:49 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/89690 |
| DOI: | 10.5325/JMODEPERISTUD.9.1.0001 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |