'Literary Offenses’ and Other Contentious Matter': Literary Controversy in Great Britain and the United States (1800-1900), Dijon
“‘Literary Offenses’ and Other Contentious Matter”
A one-day conference on Literary Controversy
in Great Britain and the United States (1800-1900)’
organized by Bénédicte Coste & Mark Niemeyer
TIL, University of Burgundy
Friday, 22 September 2017
MSH Room 03
9.30 Welcome
10.00 Chair : Mark Niemeyer
10.00 Pierre Labrune (Paris IV), ‘“We may now Swiftify & Popify as if we were wits of the last Century”: the controversy between Lord Byron and William Bowles as a new Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns’
11.00 Hélène Cottet (Lille III),’The Little Longfellow War’
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30 Chair : Bénédicte Coste
13.30 Zoé Hardy (University of Angers), ‘“Agree to disagree”: Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James’ (friendly) debate on realism and fiction’
14.30 Diane Belisle-Wolf (University of Mainz) ‘Contemporary Perspectives on Ground Zero Fiction: The Controversial Impact of Post-9/11 Novels’
15.30 Concluding remarks
16.00 End of conference