Atlantis In Fiction
The legendary island of Atlantis has often been depicted in literature, television program, television shows, films and works of popular culture. Fiction Start of genre fiction Before 1900 there was an overlap between verse epics dealing with the fall of Atlantis and novels with a pretension to fine writing which are now regarded as pioneering genre fiction. Jules Verne's ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'' (1869/71) includes a visit to sunken Atlantis aboard Captain Nemo's submarine ''Nautilus (Verne), Nautilus'' – with protagonists walking for miles over the sea bottom until reaching the impressive sunken ruins, an obvious impossibility (Verne was not aware of water pressure in the ocean deeps). In Elizabeth Birkmaier's ''Poseidon's Paradise: the Romance of Atlantis'' (San Francisco 1892), the island sinks following an earthquake. C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne also depicted the end of Atlantis in his fantasy ''The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis'', first published i ...
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