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Examines the legacy of Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days to literary and cultural understandings of the world
Reimagines global modernism on a manageable scale, from the perspective of the individual traveller
Reads circumnavigation as performance history, updating the classical ‘theatrum mundi’ for the 19th - 20th centuries
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Scripting the Itinerary
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Front Matter
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Committing Circumnavigation to Print
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Front Matter
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The Modernist World Stage
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book shows how Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days changed the global imagination. Through his novel, the world was converted into a personal itinerary, scaled to the individual traveller and, by extension, to the individual reader. Exploring Verne’s modern legacy, this study shows how subsequent generations of artists and writers took on Around the World in Eighty Days as an adaptable guidebook to the modern world. It investigates how Verne’s work leads its reader beyond the book itself. It considers Verne’s place in world literature, traces some of the many real reenactments of Verne’s itinerary, and recalls the theatrical adaptations of Verne’s story. Published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the first circumnavigation and the 150th anniversary of Verne’s novel, this book offers new insights into the largely overlooked influence of Verne on twentieth-century literature and culture and on the field of global modernism.
Keywords
- Modernism
- Novel
- Literature and Mobility
- Around the World in 80 Days
- travel writing
- modernity
- globalisation
- circumnavigation
- expeditions
- navigation
- Fiction
- Non-fiction
- theatre
- cosmopolitanism
- world literature
Authors and Affiliations
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Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Kevin Riordan
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modernist Circumnavigations
Book Subtitle: Around the World in Jules Verne's Wake
Authors: Kevin Riordan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96241-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96240-1Published: 27 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96243-2Due: 10 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96241-8Published: 26 May 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 270
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations
Topics: Comparative Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Space and Place in Culture, Drama