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‘Textes Fossiles': The Metatextual Geology of Verne’s Voyage au centre de la terre

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Nigel Harkness

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Abstract

Despite the compelling parallels between George Sand's Laura: voyage dans le cristal and Jules Verne's Voyage au centre de la Terre (both 1864), Sand's place within the intertextual fabric of Verne's novel has been occluded. By shifting the terms of the debate away from the vexed issues of borrowing, influence, or inspiration, and focusing on Verne's sustained engagement with Sand's work as a specifically geological fiction, this article sheds new light on the imbrication of the scientific and the fictional in Voyage au centre de la Terre, whereby geological and palaeontological references not only guarantee the text's verisimilitude and underwrite its didactic objectives, but also fulfil an important metatextual function.

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Author(s): Harkness N

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: The Modern Language Review

Year: 2012

Volume: 107

Issue: 4

Pages: 1047-1063

Print publication date: 01/10/2012

ISSN (print): 0026-7937

ISSN (electronic): 2222-4319

Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association

URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/modelangrevi.107.4.1047

DOI: 10.5699/modelangrevi.107.4.1047

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