Time is of the essence : temporality gender and the New Woman Machine generated contents note: I Chapter 1 Introduction: Victorian Temporality and the New Woman1 Chapter 2 Buttressing the Binary: Temporal Dichotomies in She31 Chapter 3 Trapping the Female in Time: History and Aesthetics in Tess of the dUrbervilles71 Chapter 4 Reinterpreting Evolutionary Development: Feminine Psychology in The Beth Book and The Heavenly Twins109 Chapter 5 Controlling Womens Time: Regulatory Days and Historical Determinism in The Daughters ofDanaus151 Chapter 6 Dissolving the Boundaries: Temporal Subversion in The Story of an African Farm189 Afterword: Pointing the Way to Moderist Time227 Notes233 Works Cited259 I .ndex S 285