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9780853236948

Jules Verne Narratives of Modernity

  • ISBN13:

    9780853236948

  • ISBN10:

    0853236941

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-01-05
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
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Summary

This collection of essays reflect the diversity of approaches currently being brought to bear on the writings of Jules Verne. "An indispensable book for those who want to see how far we have come along the path toward a better understanding of Verne."Science Fiction Studies

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
vii
Verne, SF, and Modernity: an Introduction
1(10)
Edmund J. Smyth
Jules Verne and the French Literary Canon
11(29)
Arthur B. Evans
Jules Verne and the Limitations of Literature
40(6)
Daniel Compere
The Fiction of Science, or the Science of Fiction
46(14)
Timothy Unwin
'L'Ici-bas' and 'I'Au-dela' ... but Not as they Knew it. Realism, Utopianism and Science Fiction in the Novels of Jules Verne
60(18)
Sarah Capitanio
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Paris: Paris au XXe siecle
78(16)
David Platten
Future Past: Myth, Inversion and Regression in Verne's Underground Utopia
94(15)
David Meakin
Measurement and Mystery in Verne
109(13)
Trevor Harris
The Science is Fiction: Jules Verne, Raymond Roussel and Surrealism
122(20)
Terry Hale
Andrew Hugill
Mysterious Masterpiece
142(15)
William Butcher
Index 157

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