Table of Contents
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Mind as Ruin: Balzac’s “Sarrasine” and the Archaeology of Self
Scott Sprenger
119
Archaeology – A Passion of George Sand
Claire Le Guillou
137
Section 3: Late Nineteenth Century
Jules Verne and the Discovery of the Natural World
Tim Unwin
155
Jules Verne’s Transylvania: Cartographic Omissions
Anca Mitroi
171
Undermining Body and Mind? The Impact of the Underground
in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature
Kiera Vaclavik
187
Alfred Jarry’s Neo-Science:
Liquidizing Paris and Debunking Verne
Ben Fisher
203
Section 4: Early Twentieth Century
Reading Environmental Apocalypse in J.-H. Rosny Aîné’s
Terrestrial Texts
Louise Lyle
219
André Gide, Eugène Rouart and le retour à la terre
David H. Walker
235
Down to Earth: André Malraux’s Political Itinerary and
the Natural World
Martin Hurcombe
247
Index of Names
265