The triumph of human empire : Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the end of the world / Rosalind Williams.

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

xi, 416 pages, 4 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: An Event of Consciousness -- The Rise of Human Empire -- Part One: Jules Verne -- Life on the Loire -- The Empire of Paris -- Inventing the Geographic Romance -- The End of the World -- Part Two: William Morris -- Life on the Thames -- Pilgrimage to a Holy Land -- A River of Fire -- From Romance to Fantasy -- Part Three: Robert Louis Stevenson -- Romantic Engineering and Engineering Romance -- Two Voyages: Inland Waterways and High Seas -- Worlds of Wonder and Problematic Shores -- The Romance of Destiny -- Afterword: A Rolling Apocalypse.