Jules Verne [electronic resource] : Narratives of Modernity
Smyth, Edmund J.
Smyth, Edmund JContributor
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,
2000.
This collection of essays reflect the diversity of approaches currently being brought to bear on the writings of Jules Verne.
Description based upon print version of record.
Title Page; Contents; Contributors; 1: Verne, SF, and Modernity: an Introduction; 2: Jules Verne and the French Literary Canon; 3: Jules Verne and the Limitations of Literature; 4: The Fiction of Science, or the Science of Fiction; 5: 'L'Ici-bas' and 'l'Au-delà' ... but Not as they Knew it. Realism, Utopianism and Science Fiction in the Novels of Jules Verne; 6: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Paris: Paris au XXe siècle; 7: Future Past: Myth, Inversion and Regression in Verne's Underground Utopia; 8: Measurement and Mystery in Verne
9: The Science is Fiction: Jules Verne, Raymond Roussel, and Surrealism10: Mysterious Masterpiece; Index
This collection of essays reflect the diversity of approaches currently being brought to bear on the writings of Jules Verne.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Science fiction, French.
Verne, Jules.
Science fiction, French
Romance fiction
Languages & Literatures
French Literature