Facing nature : environmental issues and global change in Jules Verne's Voyages extraordinaires (An analysis of The Child of the Cavern, The Purchase of the North Pole and The Invasion of the Sea)

• Main Author: Even, Kevin
• Other Authors: CRP19 - Centre de Recherches sur les Poétiques du XIXe siècle - EA 3423 (CRP19), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, Henri Scepi
• Format: Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2020
• Subjects: Jules Verne; Climate fiction; Ecocriticism; Ecopoetics; Environmental studies; Anthropocene; Fiction climatique; Écocritique; Écopoétique; Environnement; hisphilso; hist; Jules; North Pole; Verne
• Online Access: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03474150/file/These_Kevin_EVEN_2020.pdf; https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03474150

This dissertation studies the portrayal of environmental issues in Jules Verne's novels. It centers on texts addressing issues related to resource depletion, ecosystem destruction and colonial greed. Using ecocriticism theory, this piece provides a new interpretation of Verne's work and de...