- Hardcover: 236 pages
- Publisher: Clarendon Press; 1st ed. edition (31 May 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198157983
- ISBN-13: 978-0198157984
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 21.6 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,914,612 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"An important and imaginative addition to [the] understanding of the writings of Jules Verne....Fresh, stimulating, and graceful...Martin weaves together a rich knowledge of contemporary critical theory and of Vernian scholarship with a sensitive and evocative reading of the narratives."--Utopian Studies
"Easily read, but...insightful....Worthy and welcome addition to the growing corpus of English-language scholarship on Jules Verne and its efforts to both defamiliarize and refamiliarize (i.e., to "unmask") for the Anglo-American public thee multi-layered richness of Jules Verne's legendary novels."--Science-Fiction Studies
"A worthy and welcome addition to the growing English-language scholarship on Jules Verne and, perhaps more importantly, to its on-going efforts to both defamiliarize and refamiliarize...for the Anglo-American public the multi-layered richness of Verne's romans scientifiques."--Nineteenth-Century French Studies
"Martin...builds upon the serious French s
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Such novels as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days have made Jules Verne the most widely translated of all French authors. But he has typically been categorized as the father of science fiction or a writer of harmless fantasies for children. Now, in this brilliantly original new book, Andrew Martin relocates Verne squarely at the centre of the literary map. Dr Martin shows that a recurrent narrative (exemplified in short stories by Napoleon Bonaparte and Jorge Luis Borges), relating the strange destiny of a masked prophet who revolts against an empire, runs through Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires. This approach illuminates the paradoxical coalition in Verne of realism and invention, repression and transgression, imperialism and anarchy. In this book Verne emerges not just as a key to the political and literary imagination of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries but as a model for reading fiction in general.
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