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Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Time Travel and the Mechanics of Narrative 1 1. Macrological Fictions: Evolutionary Utopia and Time Travel (1887–1905) 33 Historical Interval I: The First Time Travel Story 47 2. Relativity, Psychology, Paradox: Wertenbaker to Heinlein (1923–1941) 52 Historical Interval II: Three Phases of Time Travel/The Time Machine 79 3. “The Big Time”: Multiple Worlds, Narrative Viewpoint, and Superspace 91 4. Paradox and Paratext: Picturing Narrative Theory 116 Theoretical Interval: The Primacy of the Visual in Time Travel Narrative 143 5. Viewpoint-Over-Histories: Narrative Conservation in Star Trek 148 6. Oedipus Multiplex, or, The Subject as a Time Travel Film: Back to the Future 178 Conclusion: The Last Time Travel Story 205 Notes 237 Works Cited 277 Index 297 C o n t e n t s ...

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