The right of Diane Long Hoeveler and Deborah Denenholz Morse to be identified as the
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2 Diane Long Hoeveler and Deborah Denenholz Morse novels in the very specific context of
Victorian notions of time. As she observes, a considerable amount of scholarship on time in
the Victorian era has analyzed the increased production of mechanical timepieces, Victorian
reactions to evolution, and a variety of constructions of time as they appear in Victorian
literature and culture. However, there is less critical material on how Brontë focuses on the
clock and watch as literal and symbolic indicators of time. Donovan's chapter seeks to …