Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction: Perspectives on the Epistemology and Aesthetics of Oceanic Wonders; 1 Wondrous and Terrible Sea ; Stations of an Unknown Modernity; 2 Wonder and Mystery; 3 Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea: The Overture to a Passion; 4 Mise-en-Scène: Invented Realities, or the Mediality of Wonders ; The Sea in the Aquarium; 5 Mise-en-Action: Asleep in the Deep; Epilogue; Works Cited; Notes; Index.