Modernist Circumnavigations

This book shows how Jules Verne’s  Around the World in Eighty Days  changed 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 on  Around the World in Eighty Days  as an adaptable guidebook to the modern world. It investigates how Verne’s work leads it