Stella.(Book Review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: April 1, 2005| Author: Gallois, William | Copyright information

Stella. By CAMILLE FLAMMARION. Ed. by DANIELLE CHAPERON. (Textes de Lltte rature Moderne et Contemporaine, 69) Paris: Champion. 2003. 288 pp. 40 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0814-9.

This reissued edition will be of most interest to scholars of the development of the science-fiction genre and those concerned with the literary representation of science in fin de siecle France. The novel's virtues as a literary work are, however, rather slight, for it now reads as an advertisement f...

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