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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Time in the Making: Why All the Fuss About Time? On Time, the Unknown, and Fascination -- Time and the Unknown -- Ways of Time-Making -- The Fascination with Unknown Time -- Roadmap: To Boldly Go Where no WoMan Has Gone Before -- Bibliography -- Part I Past Futures -- Chapter 2 The Old Made New: Medieval Repurposing of Prophecies -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 'Wunschzeit' Jerusalem: Rethinking the Distinction Between Time and Space in Medieval Utopias -- 'No-Place-Land' and 'Neverland' -- Wunschräume and Wunschzeiten-Scholarship on Medieval Utopias -- Wunschzeit Jerusalem -- Conclusion: Unknown Time and the Transcendence of Reality -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Living on the Edge of Time: Temporal Patterns and Irregularities in Byzantine Historical Apocalypses -- The Chronology of Apocalyptic Time -- Calculations of the Date of the Apocalypse -- The Sequence of Future Events -- The Typological Structure of Apocalyptic Time -- Massacre of the Innocents Typology -- Exodus Typology -- Flood Typology -- Christological Typologies -- The Speed of Apocalyptic Time -- Narrative Speed -- The Shortening of Days -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Unknown or Uncertain? Astrologers, the Church, and the Future in the Late Middle Ages -- Medieval Thinking and the Future: A Very Short Introduction -- Astrologers and the Future: Claims and Limitations -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 'From the Unknown to the Known and Backwards:' Representing and Presenting Remote Time in Nineteenth-Century Palaeontology -- The Destructive Power of Geological Time -- Representing the Fossil Record as Monuments of Remote Time -- Tables, Diagrams, Graphs, and Patterns: Presenting the Fossil Record in the Flow of Unknown Time -- Conclusion -- Bibliography

The opening chapter introduces and contextualizes the politics and poetics of Victorian surfaces. First, we delineate the increasing interests in both natural and constructed surfaces by taking a closer look at discourses that reflect a growing fascination with surfaces, including (pseudo-)medical treatises on physiognomy. Secondly, we focus on the politics of surface readings by scrutinizing the politics of various visual representations of Queen Victoria and the (self-)fashioning of the body politic at the centre of a growing surface culture. Third, we develop a conceptual framework for the analysis of the poetics of Victorian surfaces by analyzing the attention paid to (or withheld from) surfaces in Victorian literature and culture. By examining the role of surface reading in Victorian texts, we offer an overview of different surface cultures and debates surrounding the challenges attached to surfaces, explore how to do things with surfaces, and thereby outline what can be described as a 'poetics of surface.' ; Version of record