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Re: J. V. Textual Controversies

From: David Merchant <merchant~at~LATECH.EDU>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:12:27 -0600
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Resent-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:12:30 -0600 (CST)

At 08:52 PM 2/14/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>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?)

While this survey of the scholarship is for a class, this is to help me as
well, since I have an interest in studying J.V. in more depth. Thus I will
be learning French in the near future to not only read J. V. in the
original, but so I can also read some of the scholarship on him that is not
available in English, thus that the scholarship is in French is O.K. I
think for the class I need more English studies, but including French
scholarship is O.K. (again, especially since I'm doing this for myself as
well).

>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.

Most excellent, thanks!

TTFN,
David

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