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Although critics continue to debate whether Jules Verne's work is ‘true’ science fiction (SF), rather than scientific romance, Verne is widely credited as one of the founders of the genre, and in the popular imagination, he and SF are seen as largely synonymous. Verne has received renewed attention since the publication in 1994 of his ‘Paris au Vingtieme Siecle’, and this has highlighted his importance as a key commentator on the anguishes of modernity. This book provides a detailed account of the relationship between Verne and the French literary canon, demonstrating the ‘now-ineluctable tren ... More
Keywords: science fiction, scientific romance, modernity, French literary canon, literary canonization, narrative technique, versimilitude, defamiliarization, naturalization, dialogism
Print publication date: 2000 | Print ISBN-13: 9780853236948 |
Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: May 2014 | DOI:10.5949/liverpool/9780853236948.001.0001 |
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