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“Time Machines: The Sensation Novel as a Technology of Transimperial Temporality” investigates how late Victorian sensation novels represent and explore relations between Britain and other geographies using plots and tropes of time travel. The temporal, geographical, and cultural disruptions of sensation fiction function as alternative modes of understanding imperial and colonial relations. This dissertation builds on established postcolonial readings and, following work by Sukanya Banerjee, proffers a transimperial historical framework as a method of understanding the complex and ambivalent fascination with and potentiality of imperial “threats” that present as atavistic disruptions in the metropole. The fin-de-siècle novels by H. Rider Haggard, Guy Boothby, F. Anstey, Richard Marsh, and H.G. Wells discussed in this project offer dynamic narratives that consider the Other’s disruption of British notions of historical progress and geographical and cultural mastery in plots that represent foreign subjects and knowledges as potent agents that resist and will outlast British domination. Using Gothic literary tropes that disturb and blur distinctions between Briton and Other, and between Britain and dominated colonies and territories, these novels disturb the British Empire’s placement as the epicenter of history through a transimperial mode of retrospection that considers the Other as always, already and indefinitely existing coevally to and alongside Britain across the expanse of space and time.