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Tables of Contents for H. G. Wells's Perennial Time Machine
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Note on the Text
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: The Time Machine's Centennial Audience
xi
George Slusser
Daniele Chatelain
PART 1 Eternal Readability: A Work for All Time
The Time Machine as a First Novel: Myth and Allegory in Wells's Romance
3
9
J. R. Hammond
Taking It as a Story: The Beautiful Lie of The Time Machine
12
15
Robert Crossley
Was the Time Machine Necessary?
27
12
Paul Alkon
The Rebirth of a Scientific Intelligence: Or, From ``Traveller'' to ``Travailer'' in The Time Machine
39
11
Frank Scafella
Time Before and After The Time Machine
50
15
W. M. S. Russell
PART 2 Currents of Its Time: Neoteny, Anthropology, Society, Numerology, Imperiality
Wells and Neoteny
65
11
Kirby Farrell
The Time Machine and Victorian Mythology
76
21
Sylvia Hardy
The Time Machine and Wells's Social Trajectory
97
13
John Huntington
From Rome to Richmond: Wells, Universal History, and Prophetic Time
110
12
Patrick Parrinder
Change in the City: The Time Traveller's London and the ``Baseless Fabric'' of His Vision
122
15
Carlo Pagetti
PART 3 The Rewriting: The Time Machine in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Time at the End of Its Tether: H. G. Wells and the Subversion of Master Narrative
137
13
Larry W. Caldwell
The Legacy of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine: Destabilization and Observation
150
10
Joshua Stein
Wells and the Sequency-Simultaneity Paradox: Heinlein's Rewriting of The Time Machine in ``By His Bootstraps''
160
16
Daniele Chatelain
George Slusser
A Revision and a Gloss: Michael Bishop's Postmodern Interrogation of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine
176
12
David Leon Higdon
Doomed Formicary versus the Technological Sublime
188
7
Brian W. Aldiss
Afterword: In the Company of the Immortals
195
12
Patrick Parrinder
Contributors
207
4
Index
211