List of Contributors

Verne, SF, and Modernity: an Introduction

Edmund J. Smyth

Jules Verne and the French Literary Canon

Arthur B. Evans

Jules Verne and the Limitations of Literature

Daniel Compere

The Fiction of Science, or the Science of Fiction

Timothy Unwin

'L'Ici-bas' and 'I'Au-dela' ... but Not as they Knew it. Realism, Utopianism and Science Fiction in the Novels of Jules Verne

Sarah Capitanio

A Hitchhiker's Guide to Paris: Paris au XXe siecle

David Platten

Future Past: Myth, Inversion and Regression in Verne's Underground Utopia

David Meakin

Measurement and Mystery in Verne

Trevor Harris

The Science is Fiction: Jules Verne, Raymond Roussel and Surrealism

Terry Hale

Andrew Hugill

Mysterious Masterpiece

William Butcher

Index