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This volume is a fresh examination of the works of Jules Verne, the pioneering and enduringly popular science fiction writer. Essays study Verne's various novels--including Around the World in Eighty Days, The Mysterious Island and The Adventures of Captain Hatteras. Included essays offer analyses of literary responses to Verne's work, assessments of film adaptations of his novels and discussions of steampunk, the Verne-inspired science fiction subgenre that has influenced writers like Philip Jose Farmer, Caleb Carr and Adam Roberts.

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Author:   Gary Westfahl
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.80cm
ISBN:  

9781476687735

ISBN 10:   1476687730
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   31 March 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Gary Westfahl I. The Writings of Jules Verne Humor in the Works of Jules Verne Arthur B. Evans Imperialism and the Sublime of the Enlightenment in Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires Bed Paudyal Residual Space: Verne's Mysterious Island ­ Marie-HélÈne Huet The Return to the Frontier in the Extraordinary Voyage: Verne's The Mysterious Island and Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey John Rieder Verne Among the Punks, or ""It's Not All Just a Victorian Clockwork"" Howard V. Hendrix Winter Lights: Disaster, Interpretation, and Jules Verne's Polar Novels ­Marie-HélÈne Huet Postwar Verne Pastiches and Surrealism Nicolas Saucy II. Responses to Verne's Works ""Comrade Jules Verne vs. the Sharks of Imperialism"" in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Crimson Island Ekaterina Yudina When Less Becomes More: Adapting Around the World in Eighty Days Kieran O'Driscoll There Are No Chicken Dinosaurs on The Mysterious Island: Or, Why the Film Adaptations of Jules Verne's Novel Are Mostly Terrible Terry Harpold Have Verne—Will Travel: When the Three Stooges and Paladin Met Phileas Fogg Gary Westfahl Halley's ""More Ample Creation"": Divine Utility in Hollow Earth Theory and Fiction Peter W. Sinnema Professor Lidenbrock vs. the Mole Men: The Hollow Earth After Verne Terry Harpold III. Steampunk Finding Nemo: Verne's Antihero as Original Steampunk Mike Perschon Steamjunk: Four Works by Philip José Farmer, the Deservedly Unacknowledged Father of Steampunk Gary Westfahl Decadent Science, Steampunk Effects, and Caleb Carr a Century Later Donald M. Hassler A Study in Sherlock, or Constructing Holmes in the ­­Twenty-First Century Stephen W. Potts Verne's Depths: A Cosmogony of Possibilities Alvaro Zinos-Amaro If Jules Verne Were Alive Today… Reflections on Steampunk and Technothrillers Gary Westfahl Steampunk: The Authors Speak James P. Blaylock, Jonathan Green, Stephen Hunt, and Paul Di Filippo A Bibliography of the Works of Jules Verne A Bibliography of Secondary Sources on Jules Verne A Bibliography of Secondary Sources on Steampunk Science Fiction About the Contributors Index"

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Gary Westfahl, a professor emeritus at the University of La Verne, California, has authored, edited, or co-edited 27 books about science fiction and fantasy, and hundreds of articles and reviews. In 2003, he received the Science Fiction Research Association's Pilgrim Award for his lifetime contributions to science fiction and fantasy scholarship.

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