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Jules Verne : narratives of modernity
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Jules Verne : narratives of modernity

Author: Edmund J Smyth
Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2000.
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A collection of essays that show the diversity of approaches being brought to bear on the writings of Jules Verne.

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Jules Verne.
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2000
(OCoLC)606502046
Named Person: Jules Verne; Jules Verne
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Edmund J Smyth
ISBN: 0853236941 9780853236948 0853237042 9780853237044
OCLC Number: 43969251
Description: 160 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Verne, SF and modernity: an introduction / Edmund J. Smyth --
Jules Verne and the French literary canon / Arthur B. Evans --
Jules Verne and the limitations of literature / Daniel Compère --
Fiction of science, or the science of fiction / Timothy Unwin --
"L'Ici-bas" and "l'Au-delà" ... but not as they knew it: realism, utopianism and science fiction in the novels of Jules Verne / Sarah Capitanio --
A hitchhiker's guide to Paris: Paris au XXe siècle / David Platten --
Future past: myth, inversion and regression in Verne's underground Utopia / David Meakin --
Measurement and mystery in Verne / Trevor Harris --
The science is fiction: Jules Verne, Raymond Roussel and surrealism / Terry Hale and Andrew Hugill --
Mysterious masterpiece / William Butcher.
Responsibility: edited by Edmund J. Smyth.
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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

 
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