List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Triumph of Official Science in Jules Verne’s Voyages extraordinaires
The Responsibilities of Official Scientists
The Scientist as National Hero
Further Avatars of Official Science
In Popular Culture: Official Science to the Rescue!
2. The Rise and Fall of Inventors’ Private Science
Becoming an Inventor
A Unique Intelligence and Sensibility
A Scientific and Artistic Demonstration
A Mad Genius
Verne’s Engineers
The Menace of Private Science
In Popular Culture: Nikola Tesla as the Inventor
3. Inventors’ Hypertechnological World in Albert Robida’s Le Vingtième Siècle
The Social and Cultural Impact of Technological Growth
Humanity Redefined through Technology
The World of Prominent Inventors
In Popular Culture: Female Inventors in Contemporary Dystopian Narratives
4. Inventing the Future of Naturalism in Emile Zola’s Travail
Naturalist Technology
Zola’s Inventor and the Utopian Technology of Travail
Rewriting Humanity and Heredity
In Popular Culture: Technology and/as the Community in Westworld
5. The Language of Artificial Life in Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s L’Eve future
Edison and the Phonograph in the French Press
Villiers’s Inventor versus His Models, Faust and Prometheus
Artificial Life
Science and Literature
In Popular Culture: Villiers’s Android Reimagined as an Inventor
Conclusion
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