{"product_id":"jules-verne-lives-9781476687735","title":"Jules Verne Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   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 \u003ci\u003eAround the World in Eighty Days, The Mysterious Island\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Captain Hatteras\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGary Westfahl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI. The Writings of Jules Verne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHumor in the Works of Jules Verne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArthur B. Evans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImperialism and the Sublime of the Enlightenment in Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBed Paudyal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eResidual Space: Verne's Mysterious Island\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e­ Marie-HélÈne Huet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Return to the Frontier in the Extraordinary Voyage: Verne's The Mysterious Island and Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Rieder\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVerne Among the Punks, or \"It's Not All Just a Victorian Clockwork\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHoward V. Hendrix\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWinter Lights: Disaster, Interpretation, and Jules Verne's Polar Novels\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e­Marie-HélÈne Huet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePostwar Verne Pastiches and Surrealism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNicolas Saucy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eII. Responses to Verne's Works\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Comrade Jules Verne vs. the Sharks of Imperialism\" in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Crimson Island\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEkaterina Yudina\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen Less Becomes More: Adapting Around the World in Eighty Days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKieran O'Driscoll\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere Are No Chicken Dinosaurs on The Mysterious Island: Or, Why the Film Adaptations of Jules Verne's Novel Are Mostly Terrible\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTerry Harpold\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHave Verne—Will Travel: When the Three Stooges and Paladin Met Phileas Fogg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGary Westfahl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHalley's \"More Ample Creation\": Divine Utility in Hollow Earth Theory and Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeter W. Sinnema\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProfessor Lidenbrock vs. the Mole Men: The Hollow Earth After Verne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTerry Harpold\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIII. Steampunk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFinding Nemo: Verne's Antihero as Original Steampunk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMike Perschon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSteamjunk: Four Works by Philip José Farmer, the Deservedly Unacknowledged Father of Steampunk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGary Westfahl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDecadent Science, Steampunk Effects, and Caleb Carr a Century Later\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDonald M. Hassler\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Study in Sherlock, or Constructing Holmes in the ­­Twenty-First Century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStephen W. Potts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVerne's Depths: A Cosmogony of Possibilities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlvaro Zinos-Amaro\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf Jules Verne Were Alive Today… Reflections on Steampunk and Technothrillers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGary Westfahl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSteampunk: The Authors Speak\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJames P. Blaylock, Jonathan Green, Stephen Hunt, and Paul Di Filippo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Bibliography of the Works of Jules Verne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Bibliography of Secondary Sources on Jules Verne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Bibliography of Secondary Sources on Steampunk Science Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51456078578007,"sku":"9781476687735","price":34.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476687735.jpg?v=1755033714","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jules-verne-lives-9781476687735","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}