03645nam 2200409 450 991057408390332120221215150019.09783030962418(electronic bk.)9783030962401(MiAaPQ)EBC7001204(Au-PeEL)EBL7001204(CKB)22895134000041(EXLCZ)992289513400004120221215d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierModernist circumnavigations around the world in Jules Verne's wake /Kevin RiordanCham, Switzerland :Springer,[2022]©20221 online resource (274 pages)Print version: Riordan, Kevin Modernist Circumnavigations Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030962401 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 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.Voyages around the worldVoyages around the world.809.9332Riordan Kevin1239894MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910574083903321Modernist Circumnavigations2876455UNINA