Modernist Circumnavigations

This book shows how Jules Verne'sAround the World in Eighty Dayschanged the global imagination. Through his novel, the world was converted into a personal itinerary, scaled to the individual traveller and, by extension, to the individual reader. Exploring Verne's modern legacy, this study shows how subsequent generations of artists and writers took onAround the World in Eighty Daysas an adaptable guidebook to the modern world. It investigates how Verne's work leads its reader beyond the book itself. It considers Verne's place in world literature, traces some of the many real reenactments of Verne's itinerary, and recalls the theatrical adaptations of Verne's story.Published to coincide with the 500thanniversary of the first circumnavigation and the 150thanniversary of Verne's novel, this book offers new insights into the largely overlooked influence of Verne on twentieth-century literature and culture andon the field of global modernism.