The conventional image of Jules Verne as an entertaining children’s author has gradually been replaced by that of a fully-fledged author whose work was created in collaboration with a publisher concerned with edification and didacticism. While recent criticism has privileged the study of Verne’s fictional universe in relation to the sociopolitical sphere, this dossier, resulting from a symposium, aims to refocus on the novelist’s “vision of the nineteenth century.”
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques