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An overview of the corpus of the author of the "Voyages extraordinaires". The patron saint of steampunk authors explored through his novels the transformation of the modern world resulting from the explosion of technological advances in the industrial age, yet he was also an astute and erudite historical thinker, an amateur anthropologist whose work reflected many of the prejudices and challenges of his colonizing contemporaries. A dabbler in the new human sciences and their role in the development of cultural models, he provides a unique entryway into the fin-de-siècle French mind set. This class will be taught in French. For more information, see http://www.wilda.org/Courses/CourseVault/Undergrad/Verne/Syllabus.html Recommended Prerequisites AS.212.333 or AS.212.334