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COPYRIGHT 2005 Modern Humanities Research Association
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 for, and extension of, Flammarion's better-known works in the fields of astronomy and popular science. Stella was one of three novels written by this 'vulgarisateur scientifique', the principal task of whose writing was the description of his excitement at...
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