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Riordan Kevin |
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Modernist circumnavigations : around the world in Jules Verne's wake / / Kevin Riordan |
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Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] |
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©2022 |
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9783030962418 |
9783030962401 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (274 pages) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: A Circuitous Way of Making Sense of the World -- The Writing of Circumnavigation -- Jules Verne Modernism and an Around-the-World Method -- The Itinerary -- Around and Around -- Part I: Scripting the Itinerary -- Chapter 2: Describing a Circumference: Jules Verne's Guidebook for the Modern World -- A Newspaper, a Wager, and a Chronotope -- The Imperial Guidebook and the Logistical Novel -- Fiction's Fulfillment and the Footpath Around the World -- A Matter of Perspective: Jules Verne Writes on the Globe -- Chapter 3: The Portable Printing Press: Jules Verne as World Literature -- Verne in the World, Verne in Translation -- The Portable Printing Press and the Railway Pioneer -- Reading Le Tour du monde in Allahabad -- Part II: Committing Circumnavigation to Print -- Chapter 4: The National Character Abroad: The New York World and The Cosmopolitan -- Nellie Bly in the Pages of Mechanical Reproduction -- In and Out of the Library -- The Writing on the Horizon -- Chapter 5: Playing Nellie Bly: On the Travel Writing of an American Girl -- Playing the American Girl Abroad -- The Loyalties and Apologies of an American Writer -- The Afterimage of the Fastest Circumnavigation -- Chapter 6: The Other Direction: Elizabeth Bisland's Guide to Cosmopolitan Composition -- Realism in Reverse: Travel Writing's Horizons of Expectation -- Cosmopolitanism at Sea: A Moving |
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Room of One's Own -- Seeing the Elephant: On the Surprises of Home -- Part III: The Modernist World Stage -- Chapter 7: Jean Cocteau's Around-the-World Performance: Notes on Sensation -- This Is How the World Begins (as Theater) -- Writing Ajar -- or, the Practices for the Meantime -- This Is How the World Ends (on the 81st Day) -- Chapter 8: A Modernist Theatrum Mundi: Orson Welles and the Theater of Attractions. |
Verne's Drama and the Theater of Attractions -- The Instructions of Silent Film -- Portals to Elsewhere: Worldmaking at the Theater's Edges -- From the Incomplete to the Impossible -- Chapter 9: Verne in the American Century: Circumnavigation as a Foreign Policy -- The Rise of American Circumnavigation -- The First in Around-the-World Flight -- Hail Noble Captain, It Is Done Again -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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