Editing Captain Nemo (section)

== Origin ==

In early drafts of ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas]]'', Nemo appears as a [[szlachcic|Polish noble]], a member of the [[szlachta]] bent on avenging the murder of his family during Russia's violent suppression of the [[January Uprising]]. Verne's editor [[Pierre-Jules Hetzel]] feared that the book would offend the [[Russian Empire]], a major French ally, and cause the book to be banned from that country's bookstores. Accordingly, Hetzel insisted that Verne revise the novel to conceal Nemo's background and political motivations.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Mike |last=Perschon |url=http://www.verniana.org/volumes/02/A4/Perschon.pdf |title=Finding Nemo: Verne's Antihero as Original Steampunk |journal=Verniana: Jules Verne Studies |volume=2 |date=February 1, 2010 |pages=181–182}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Jess |last=Nevins |title=The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana |location=Austin, Texas |publisher=Monkeybrain Books |year=2005 |page=128 |isbn=978-1-93226-515-6}}</ref>