Territoires du surnaturel: l’espace de l’aventure à la fin du XIXe siècle
Supernatural Territories: Space of Adventure at the End of the 19th Century

Author(s): Paul Faggianelli Brocart
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: imperialism; adventure novel; space; science; supernatural;
Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the spatial translation of the literary categories of the supernatural, within the imperial hierarchy that divides territories between center and margins. Through a group of adventure novels from the 19th century, going from Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle, to Rosny, we will focus on how the supernatural can ben encoded in a spatial representation, and how the distortion triggered by the supernatural can be domesticated through the scientific apparatus.

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