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Re: Costello's book

From: wb <wb~at~ied.edu.hk>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 11:14:36 +0800
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

Dear Art,

Many thanks for the useful reference. Agreed about Costello: a generally
solid work.

You've been hiding your light under a bushel! The SFS site
http://www.uiowa.edu/~sfs/ is a joy to use, and full of high-level stuff.
Recommended to everyone in the forum.

Happy (Chinese) New Year!

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: Arthur B. Evans <aevans2~at~mail.tds.net>
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>
Sent: 04 February 2000 07:47
Subject: Costello's book


> Tim,
>
> Yes, Costello's book is quite informative and (for its time, 1978) pretty
> solid in terms of its scholarship
> There are a few errors here and there--ex. JV's age when he died (78, not
> 87)--but these are just quibbles. Overall, I think it's a very good intro
to
> JV's life and works.
>
> However, as you point out--except for a general critical bibliography at
the
> end--Costello does not cite specific sources for what he presents in his
> text. Its documentational apparatus is pretty weak. Footnotes or endnotes
> would've helped. But, then again, it was probably not intended to be a
> scholarly work but, rather, to target the general reading public.
>
> I would recommend it. It's much better, for example, than the recent
> Lottman biography which almost never talks about Verne's writing! See
Brian
> Taves's review of this book in _Science Fiction Studies_ online at:
> http://www.uiowa.edu/~sfs/taves73.htm
>
> Best,
> Art
>
>
>
Received on Fri 04 Feb 2000 - 05:13:03 IST

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