Modernist circumnavigations : around the world in Jules Verne's wake / / Kevin Riordan

• Autore: Riordan Kevin
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 pages)
• Disciplina: 809.9332
• Soggetto topico: Voyages around the world
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Modernist Circumnavigations
• ISBN: 9783030962418; 9783030962401
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910574083903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II