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Re: J. V. Textual Controversies

From: Terry Harpold <tharpold~at~english.ufl.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:52:28 -0500
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On Sunday, February 13, 2005, David Merchant <merchant~at~latech.edu> writes:

>Can anyone point me to good scholarship sources I can look at regarding
>textual controversies involving Jules Verne's works? I'm especially
>interested in authorship issues: which books are their concerns about Jules
>Verne not writing the entire work, that some editor or relative later on
>changed the text before publication; otherwise I'm interested in any
>sources that can give me information about Jules Verne texts which have
>errors in them: are they printer errors or Jules' errors, for instance.

Hi David,

There's a sizable corpus of short studies in this area, re. the many labyrinths of the Michel-Jules Verne authorship question, substantial variants between first (serialized) and subsequent (in book form) publications of the _Voyages_ and the like. Most are in French. (Is that OK?)

In English, there are fewer dedicated studies. Walter's preface and annotations to _Twenty Thousand Leagues_ (as he noted) is useful, as is (for example) the excellent introductory materials and annotations of the Wesleyan "Early Classics of Science Fiction" Verne editions, esp. that of _The Mysterious Island_, which is an important example of changes forced on Verne by his editor that appear to dramatically change the sense of the book.

TH

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Terry Harpold
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Department of English
University of Florida

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