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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.
List of contents
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
About the author
Gary Westfahl, a professor emeritus at the University of La Verne, California, has authored, edited, or co-edited 35 books about science fiction and fantasy, and has written 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.
Summary
Offers a fresh examination of the works of Jules Verne, the pioneering and enduringly popular science fiction writer. Included essays offer analyses of literary responses to Verne’s work, and assessments of film adaptations of his novels and discussions of steampunk.
