ABSTRACT
This chapter describes Robert Louis Stevenson's short story "Pavilion on the Links" ought to be read as breaking new ground in imagining time and space in narrative. This assertion positions Stevenson's short story as part of a trend that is observable in the wider literary culture of the fin-de-siècle, indicating the advent of a new master chronotope. Over the course of the long nineteenth century, investigations into time and temporality were undertaken from a variety of perspectives. This profusion of research excited and terrified writers in equal measure leading to a diverse response in the field of literature that often manifested itself within a single narrative or a single author's corpus as well as across the literary market. Stevenson's essays contain passages which engage critically and directly with the concept of time and temporality, while his romances explore the structural and thematic implications that a deeper understanding of these concepts brings to fiction.
