Arthur B Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595394 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur B Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur B |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | SFS |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dorothy Scarborough. Supernatural Science
Introduced and annotated by Arthur B. Evans In its day, Dorothy Scarborough’s book The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (1917) was considered to be the best scholarly study on the subject. As the author points out in the book’s preface, the sheer size of its corpus was impressive: “the supernatural in modern English fiction has been found difficult to deal with because of its wealth of material. While there has been no previous book on the …
Jules Verne and the Media
502 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 47 (2020) provide a convenient overview of the tradition. The book perhaps lacks a comprehensive discussion of the concept of history, and of the multiple competing narratives jostling for hegemony. While some chapters address this topic in specific textual contexts, a more general discussion would have helped. On the whole, however, this collection is a welcome addition to scholarship on alternative histories.…
Natacha Vas-Deyres Patrick Bergeron Patrick GuayC'était demain
657 BOOKS IN REVIEW sciences, Rhee’s exploration of the future of human labor produces valuable insights into the human epoch, refreshingly without ever pronouncing the word anthropos. Those engaged with feminist science and technology studies, Marxist feminism, labor history, contemporary art criticism, and posthumanism will find this book a useful one to peruse. Sf scholars interested in a genre history of robot stories will want to supplement …
Surrealism and Science Fiction
As one who has an abiding interest in both science fiction and Surrealism, I was remiss for not calling these two titles to the attention of SFS readers when they first appeared last year.To put them into context, it is useful to recall David Ketterer's observation in 1976, in his SFS article "Science Fiction and Allied Literature," where he says that he found it "rather surprising that the considerable affinity which exists between Surrealism an…
Anachronism in Early French Futuristic Fiction
This essay focuses on examples of anachronism—both intentional and unintentional—in several early French “retrofuturistic” novels: Louis-Sebastien Mercier’s The Year 2440 (1771), Emile Souvestre’s The World as It Shall Be (1846), Jules Verne’s Paris in the 20th Century (written in 1863, published in 1994), and Albert Robida’s The Twentieth Century (1882). I examine the many anachronisms in these “tales of the future” through the lens of two diffe…
Culminating a Decade of Scholarship on Jules Verne
During the ten years that have passed since this centennial celebration, Verne scholarship has continued to be surprisingly vigorous.For example, there has been a steady stream of new English-language translations of Verne showing up in the marketplace.And, judged not only by their quantity but also by their quality, they bear out my observation in 2009 that we seem to be "witnessing a veritable renaissance of interest in all things Vernian" ("Ju…
Hidden Gods Revealed
George Edgar Slusser (1939–2014)
Another Verne Manuscript Translated
Another Excellent Verne Translation
The Apocalyptic Science Fiction of Jacques Spitz
from the 1930s and 40s, wrote a number of sf novels that are definitely worth rediscovering today. Along with José Moselli and Régis Messac, Spitz belonged to the second generation of post-Jules Verne sf writers in France. They followed in the footsteps of J.-H. Rosny aîné, Gustave Le Rouge, and Maurice Renard, whose own pioneering tales were part of a “Golden Age ” of early French sf from the 1890s through the first decades of the twentieth cent…
Good News from France
Re-viewing Verne’s Invisible Man
SFS Goes Electronic
Two Titans Remembered
Protesting Too Much
Sfra 2009
The Verne School in France
During the final decades of the nineteenth century in France, the unprecedented success of Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires began to generate a host of "Verne School" imitators including Paul d'Ivoi, Louis Boussenard, Maurice Champagne, Georges Le Faure, and Henry de Graffigny, among others. They were very prolific and specialized in science-fictional adventure stories that recycled the same themes of exploration and technology and the same …
Jules Verne’s English Translations
This article offers a detailed comparison of the original French editions of Jules Verne’s Voyages Extraordinaires and their English translations. Many of Verne’s most popular novels were severely abridged, simplified, and ideologically censored in their Englishlanguage versions. Several of these bowdlerized translations became the “standard” editions of Verne’s works in the UK and the US and are still being published today. As a result, most ang…
A Bibliography of Jules Verne’s English Translations
Gustave Le Rouge, Pioneer of Early French Science Fiction
A prolific writer Of French pulp fiction at the dawn of the twentieth century. Gustave Le Rouge (1867-1938) penned an estimated 312 works in a wide variety of genres: science fiction, horror, detective fiction, spy novels, historical dramas, poetry collections, theater and screenplays, biographical studies, essays on occultism, and even cookbooks. His best-known sf works include such scientific-adventure tales as La Conspiration des milliardaires…
Charting the Unknown World of French SF and Fantastique
Hetzel and Verne
The Origins of Science Fiction Criticism
From Johannes Kepler’s 1634 notes on his Somnium to essays by and on H.G. Wells in the early twentieth century, there have been many critical explorations of the literature we now call science fiction. The commentaries of these (often forgotten) early critics are of value principally because they first expressed many—if not most—of those concerns that would later become central to the sf criticism of the twentieth century: the impact of science a…
Introduction
The Fantastic Science Fiction of Maurice Renard
Although one of the most prominent writers (and theorists) of science fiction in France throughout the period of 1900-1930, Maurice Renard has heretofore received very little critical attention outside his native land. His neglect among Anglo-American literary scholars is most likely the result of two factors: first, very few English translations of Renard's works exist (and those that do are of inferior quality) and, second, the basic nature of …
Anachronism in Early French Futuristic Fiction
This essay focuses on examples of anachronism—both intentional and unintentional—in several early French “retrofuturistic” novels: Louis-Sebastien Mercier’s The Year 2440 (1771), Emile Souvestre’s The World as It Shall Be (1846), Jules Verne’s Paris in the 20th Century (written in 1863, published in 1994), and Albert Robida’s The Twentieth Century (1882). I examine the many anachronisms in these “tales of the future” through the lens of two diffe…
The Verne School in France
During the final decades of the nineteenth century in France, the unprecedented success of Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires began to generate a host of "Verne School" imitators including Paul d'Ivoi, Louis Boussenard, Maurice Champagne, Georges Le Faure, and Henry de Graffigny, among others. They were very prolific and specialized in science-fictional adventure stories that recycled the same themes of exploration and technology and the same …
Literary Intertexts in Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires
The unique narrative recipe used by Jules Verne to create his Voyages Extraordinaires is characterized not only by repeated reference to the theories and discoveries of real scientists, geographers, historians, and explorers, but also by a wide variety of purely literary intertexts-explicit or implicit allusions to hundreds of authors and works from the "great works" of Western literature. These literary references function so as to firmly anchor…
Science Fiction vs. Scientific Fiction in France
SF needs to be theoretically distinguished from its generic “cousin” Scientific Fiction. As an early example of the latter, Jules Verne’s novels are structurally different from most SF. Verne’s “Voyages Extraordinaires” were intentionally geared towards the pedagogical implantation of factual scientific knowledge. And the narratological blueprint of each “roman scientifique” in this series strongly reflects this intent. By examining diachronicall…
Science Fiction in France
Science Fiction in France
As one of the world’s oldest and most varied literatures within the genre, the SF of France has a history that is richly heterogeneous in both theme and narrative format. From the utopian fantasy and imaginary voyages of Rabelais and Cyrano de Bergerac, through the scientifically didactic dialogues of Fontenelle and the incisive contes philosophiques of Voltaire and Diderot, through its late 19th and early 20th century “golden age” in the many ro…
Futures of the Past
Optograms and Fiction
A popular belief during the late 19th and early 20th century held that the image of the last thing seen at the moment of death remained imprinted forever upon the retina of the eye. It was called an “optogram.” This belief developed concurrently with rapid advances made in photography during this historical period, and was seemingly validated by certain scientific experiments in ocular physiology done in the 1870s. Looking for the “photo in a dea…
Academese and International Transactions
The Fantastic Science Fiction of Maurice Renard
Although one of the most prominent writers (and theorists) of science fiction in France throughout the period of 1900-1930, Maurice Renard has heretofore received very little critical attention outside his native land. His neglect among Anglo-American literary scholars is most likely the result of two factors: first, very few English translations of Renard's works exist (and those that do are of inferior quality) and, second, the basic nature of …
North American College Courses in Science Fiction, Utopian Literature, and Fantasy
Literary Intertexts in Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires
The unique narrative recipe used by Jules Verne to create his Voyages Extraordinaires is characterized not only by repeated reference to the theories and discoveries of real scientists, geographers, historians, and explorers, but also by a wide variety of purely literary intertexts-explicit or implicit allusions to hundreds of authors and works from the "great works" of Western literature. These literary references function so as to firmly anchor…
The Surrealistic Science Fiction of Serge Brussolo
The sf works of French author Serge Brussolo have been, since the early 1980s, hugely popular in France. Although still untranslated into English, Brussolo’s 50+ sf novels and anthologies present a unique approach to the genre. By infusing into classical sf topoi wildly hallucinatory imagery and dreamscape encounters of all sorts, Brussolo offers the reader an alternative experience to the traditional sf novum. Much like J.G. Ballard, Brussolo us…
In Memoriam
The Illustrators of Jules Verne’s Voyages Extraordinaires
Jules Verne’s original Voyages Extraordinaires contained over four thousand illustrations—an average of 60+ per novel in the popular Hetzel red and gold “luxury” French editions. These Victorian-looking wood-cut plates and maps constituted an integral part of Verne’s early sf oeuvre and, intercalated into the text at intervals of every 6-8 pages, they provided a powerful and omnipresent visual support structure to the text’s fictional narrative, …
The Origins of Science Fiction Criticism
From Johannes Kepler’s 1634 notes on his Somnium to essays by and on H.G. Wells in the early twentieth century, there have been many critical explorations of the literature we now call science fiction. The commentaries of these (often forgotten) early critics are of value principally because they first expressed many—if not most—of those concerns that would later become central to the sf criticism of the twentieth century: the impact of science a…
Introduction
Charting the Unknown World of French SF and Fantastique
Hetzel and Verne
Gustave Le Rouge, Pioneer of Early French Science Fiction
A prolific writer Of French pulp fiction at the dawn of the twentieth century. Gustave Le Rouge (1867-1938) penned an estimated 312 works in a wide variety of genres: science fiction, horror, detective fiction, spy novels, historical dramas, poetry collections, theater and screenplays, biographical studies, essays on occultism, and even cookbooks. His best-known sf works include such scientific-adventure tales as La Conspiration des milliardaires…
Jules Verne’s English Translations
This article offers a detailed comparison of the original French editions of Jules Verne’s Voyages Extraordinaires and their English translations. Many of Verne’s most popular novels were severely abridged, simplified, and ideologically censored in their Englishlanguage versions. Several of these bowdlerized translations became the “standard” editions of Verne’s works in the UK and the US and are still being published today. As a result, most ang…
A Bibliography of Jules Verne’s English Translations
Protesting Too Much
Sfra 2009
The Verne School in France
During the final decades of the nineteenth century in France, the unprecedented success of Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires began to generate a host of "Verne School" imitators including Paul d'Ivoi, Louis Boussenard, Maurice Champagne, Georges Le Faure, and Henry de Graffigny, among others. They were very prolific and specialized in science-fictional adventure stories that recycled the same themes of exploration and technology and the same …
Two Titans Remembered
SFS Goes Electronic
Re-viewing Verne’s Invisible Man
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