Jules Verne
Subtitle: narratives of modernity
By: edited by Edmund J. Smyth.
Contributors: Smyth, Edmund J.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Liverpool
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Verne, Jules, 1828-1905 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Science fiction, French -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Verne, SF and modernity: an introduction / Edmund J. Smyth; title: Jules Verne and the French literary canon / Arthur B. Evans; title: Jules Verne and the limitations of literature / Daniel Compère; title: Fiction of science, or the science of fiction / Timothy Unwin; title: "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; title: A hitchhiker's guide to Paris: Paris au XXe siècle / David Platten; title: Future past: myth, inversion and regression in Verne's underground Utopia / David Meakin; title: Measurement and mystery in Verne / Trevor Harris; title: The science is fiction: Jules Verne, Raymond Roussel and surrealism / Terry Hale and Andrew Hugill; title: Mysterious masterpiece / William Butcher.