LEADER 03645nam 2200409 450 001 9910574083903321 005 20221215150019.0 010 $a9783030962418$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783030962401 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7001204 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7001204 035 $a(CKB)22895134000041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9922895134000041 100 $a20221215d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aModernist circumnavigations $earound the world in Jules Verne's wake /$fKevin Riordan 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cSpringer,$d[2022] 210 4$d©2022 215 $a1 online resource (274 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Riordan, Kevin Modernist Circumnavigations Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030962401 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 327 $aVerne'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. 606 $aVoyages around the world 615 0$aVoyages around the world. 676 $a809.9332 700 $aRiordan$b Kevin$01239894 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910574083903321 996 $aModernist Circumnavigations$92876455 997 $aUNINA