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New Scholarship On Early Sf In France And Québec. [Review Of C'Était Demain: Anticiper La Science-Fiction En France Et Au Québec (1880-1950) [It Was Tomorrow: Anticipating Science Fiction In France And Quebec, 1880-1950], Eds. Natacha Vas-Deyres, Patrick Bergeron, And Patrick Guay. Bordeaux, France: Presses Universitaires De Bordeaux, 2018], Arthur B. Evans

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The Scientific Romances Of Jules Verne And H.G. Wells: Imperialism Disguised As Progress In The Early Days Of Science Fiction, Timothy Ferris

Theses and Dissertations

Frequently in their respective oeuvres, Verne and Wells write in a rhetoric of conquest that almost always translates to discovering a more efficient means of taming wild, non-European environments. These goals extend not only to the lands that their protagonists explore, but also to human beings and other life that may populate them. Indeed, the underlying focus—the one that is masked behind the thrill and adventure of both Wells and Verne—is none other than the march of progress as understood by middle-class Europeans in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Progress can produce positivistic optimism, and it can also …

Claiming Primordial Landscapes: Science And Imperialism In Turn-Of-The-Century Science Fiction Novels, Kaitlin S. Andersen

All NMU Master's Theses

This thesis argues that the relationship between nineteenth-century geology and paleontology play a role in imperial ambitions of countries and characters in science fiction novels. Two novels are analyzed— Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne and The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—using the theories of Edward Said and Michel Foucault. I pay specific attention to the idea of knowledge serving as power in imperial exploration, and how the control of knowledge allows for the empowerment of imperialist characters in the texts.

By reading the novels as imperial narratives, I have found that the scientific …

Anachronism In Early French Futuristic Fiction, Arthur B. Evans

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Culminating A Decade Of Scholarship On Jules Verne, Arthur B. Evans

Arthur Bruce Evans

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Hidden Gods Revealed. [Review Of Les Dieux Cachés De La Science-Fiction Française (1950-2010), Edited By Natacha Vas-Deyres, Patrick Bergeron, Patrick Guay, Florence Plet-Nicolas, And Danièle André. Bordeaux: Presses Universitatires, Coll. Eilôdon, 2014.], Arthur B. Evans

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Culminating A Decade Of Scholarship On Jules Verne, Arthur B. Evans

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George Edgar Slusser (1939-2015), Arthur B. Evans

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Obituary for George Slusser, an important American scholar of science fiction.

The "New" Jules Verne, Arthur B. Evans

Arthur Bruce Evans

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Good News From France, Arthur B. Evans

Arthur Bruce Evans

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Another Excellent Verne Translation, Arthur B. Evans

Arthur Bruce Evans

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Vehicular Utopias Of Jules Verne, Arthur B. Evans

Arthur Bruce Evans

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Rejuvenating The Old Storyteller. [Review Of Jules Verne's Amazing Journeys: Five Visionary Classics, Trans. And Ed. Frederick Paul Walter, Suny Press, 2010], Arthur B. Evans

Arthur Bruce Evans

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Another Verne Manuscript Translated, Arthur B. Evans

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The Apocalyptic Science Fiction Of Jacques Spitz, Arthur B. Evans

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Jules Verne's Dream Machines: Technology And Transcendence, Arthur B. Evans

Global Language Studies Faculty publications

This article discusses how Verne mythologizes and poeticizes his fictional machines. More than just a means for solving problems and/or for providing access to exotic geographical locales, Verne’s technology is portrayed as being intrinsically poetic. Bridging the worlds of the industrial and the artistic, Verne’s machines constitute a new kind of objet d’art. Anthropomorphized to make them seem less coldly mechanical, these devices take on a life of their own and exist in a richly symbiotic relationship with their creators. Such machines transport the readers of Verne’s Voyages extraordinaires beyond the mimetic, serving both as a means to build verisimilitude …

Good News From France, Arthur B. Evans

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Another Excellent Verne Translation, Arthur B. Evans

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Re-Viewing Verne's Invisible Man, Arthur B. Evans

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Rejuvenating The Old Storyteller. [Review Of Jules Verne's Amazing Journeys: Five Visionary Classics, Trans. And Ed. Frederick Paul Walter, Suny Press, 2010], Arthur B. Evans

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The Verne School In France: Paul D'Ivoi's Voyages Excentriques, Arthur B. Evans

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Vehicular Utopias Of Jules Verne, Arthur B. Evans

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The Illustrators Of Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires, Arthur B. Evans

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Literary Intertexts In Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires, Arthur B. Evans

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Superb Jules Verne Translations. [Review Of Jules Verne's Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, Trans. William Butcher, Oxford Up, 1992, And Jules Verne's Around The World In 80 Days, Trans. William Butcher, Oxford Up, 1995], Arthur B. Evans

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The "New" Jules Verne, Arthur B. Evans

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Translation Of Maurice Renard's Article "On The Scientific-Marvellous Novel", Arthur B. Evans

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A Jules Verne Fairy Tale. [Review Of Jules Verne's Adventures Of The Rat Family, Trans. Evelyn Copeland, Ed. Iona Opie And Brian Taves, Oxford Up, 1993], Arthur B. Evans

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The Fantastic Science Fiction Of Maurice Renard, Arthur B. Evans

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Science Fiction In France: A Brief History And Selective Bibliography, Arthur B. Evans

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