Deep Chronotopes

The final visualisation, the deep chronotopes map, shows the balance of spatial types in the novel. By far the most prevalent is anti-idyll, as one might expect from a novel depicting a violent invasion. Secondary spaces are the ‘provincial town’, correlated with the suburban towns of Maybury, Woking and Leatherhead; with the encounter and road spatial types reflecting the movements of the Narrator and his Brother through the text. Interestingly, this graph places metanarrative at the centre. Though this spatial type only makes up a small fraction of the novel, Wells tends to use shifts of diegesis to mediate between different moments in the novel, giving structure, pace, and context to the unfolding of the narrative.