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Re-valuing Aestheticism and Modernism through their (Dis)credited Figures. Aesthetics, Ethics and Economics 1860-1940

Re-valuing Aestheticism and Modernism through their (Dis)credited Figures. Aesthetics, Ethics and Economics 1860-1940

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 Re-valuing Aestheticism and Modernism through their (Dis)credited Figures.

Aesthetics, Ethics and Economics 1860-1940

Montpellier, October 2-4, 2013 

                                                    Convened by:

                                                    Christine REYNIER (University Montpellier 3—EMMA),

                                                    Bénédicte COSTE (University of Burgundy—TIL)

                                                    Catherine DELYFER (University Toulouse 2—CAS

Main Objectives of the Workshop:

Focusing on the period 1860-1940, our project means to re-examine historiographical assumptions about two major British literary movements, Aestheticism and Modernism, in order to highlight the (dis)connections between them thus revealing the working processes of aesthetic change. This approach has two important consequences. First of all, one is led to broaden the attention from a few icons to a wider number of actors who played a significant, if often unacknowledged, role in shaping the writing and thinking of the period. Secondly, our approach foregrounds contextual analysis and cross-disciplinary study, in order to illuminate the philosophic, economic and political fabric of Aestheticism and Modernism.

PROGRAMME

Wednesday 2 October 2013

09.00-9.30           Welcome by Convenors-coffee

09.30-09.50         Introductory words by Convenors

Bénédicte COSTE (University of Burgundy—ITL)

Catherine DELYFER (University Toulouse 2—CAS)

Christine REYNIER (University Montpellier3—EMMA)

09.50-10.00         Presentation of the European Science Foundation (ESF) Dr. Nina KANCEWICZ-HOFFMAN, Senior Science Officer for Humanities and Social Sciences

10.00-13.00  Morning Session:  Rethinking the Great Divide

10.00-10.30 “When was the Great Divide? Mapping the Great Divide” 

Lyn PYKETT (Aberystywth University, UK)

 

10.40-11.10 “(Re)Crediting Arthur Symons, Decadent-Modernist Literary Ghost”

Elisa BIZZOTTO (University of Venice, Italy)

11.40-12.10 “Preparing Modernism? The Fin-de-Siècle Short Story by Women Writers”

Elke D’HOKER (University of Leuven, Belgium)

12.20-12.50  “Autobiografictional Genealogies of Modernism” 

Max SAUNDERS (King’s College London, UK)

14.30-17.30 Afternoon Session:  Debts and (Dis)credited Figures

14.30-15.00 “Leonard Woolf and the Subject of Empire”

Christine FROULA (Northwestern University, USA)

15.10-15.40 “From Periphery to Centre: the Female Writer in Pater and Woolf”

Lene ØSTERMARK-JOHANSEN (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

16.10-16.40  “Woolf and Ruskin in The London Scene: Challenging the (Dis)-Connections between Modernism and Aestheticism”

Christine REYNIER (University Montpellier 3—EMMA)

16.50-17.20  “Plato’s Tank: Aestheticism, Dorothy Richardson and the Idea of Democracy”

Scott McCRACKEN (University of Keele, UK)

Thursday 3 October 2013

09.00 Morning Session:  Ethics, Aesthetics and Value

09.00-9.30 “F. H. Bradley’s Neoplatonic Turn in Ethical Studies (1876)”

Jean-Paul ROSAYE (University of Artois, France)

9.40-10.10 “Art and Utility: Mapping a Victorian Debate”

Emmanuelle de CHAMPS (University Paris 8, France)

10.20-10.50      “Debt, Credit and Value in Four Speculation Novels of the Fin de Siècle”

Catherine DELYFER (University of Toulouse 2, France) 

11.20-11.50 “‘On First Editions’: Ezra Pound’s Economic Objects”

Michael KINDELLAN (Humboldt Fellow, University of Bayreuth, Germany)

12.00-12.30  “Modernists as Decadents: Excess and Waste in G.M. Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Others”

Rainer EMIG (Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany)

14.00-17.40 Afternoon Session:  Aestheticism, Modernism and Economics

14.00-14.30 “‘The independence of the word’: Words, Styles, Literature, and the Question of Value between 1880 and 1920”

Bénédicte COSTE (University of Burgundy, France)

14.40-15.10 “Speculative Modernism”

Stephen ROSS (University of Victoria, Canada)

15.50-16.20   “Money, Modernity and Trust in Evelyn Waugh and Ford Madox Ford”

Rob HAWKES (Teesside University/Leeds Trinity University)   

16.30-17.00 “The Modernist Trajectory of Economics”

Mary POOVEY (New York University, USA)

Friday 4 October 2013

09.00 Morning Session:  Artistic Networks

09.00-9.30 “Playing it by Ear:  Pictorial Aestheticism and the Political Challenge of Acoustic Modernity in Henry James’s Narrative Method”

Fabio VERICAT (University Complutense, Madrid)

9.40-10.10 “The New Woman Flaneuse? George Egerton’s Urban Aesthetic”

Tina O’TOOLE (University of Limerick, Ireland)

10.20-10.50 “Literary Cosmopolitans and Agents of Mediation: Oscar Wilde and Fin-de-Siècle Viennese Artistic Networks”

Sandra MAYER (University of Vienna)

11.20-11.50 “An (Expatriate) Aesthete in Paris”

Ana Parejo VADILLO (Birkbeck College, London, UK)

12.00-12.30  “Pioneers of Modern Design or from Artisan-worker to Designer”

Ann BANFIELD (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

14.00-17.30 Afternoon Session:  Visual Arts

14.00-14.30 “Perception, Taste and the Eros of the Art Object in Vernon Lee (and Sigmund Freud)”

Stefano EVANGELISTA (Trinity College, University of Oxford, UK)

14.40-15.10 “Going Dutch: Instantaneous Photography and Aesthetic Values 1860s-1920s”

Elena GUALTIERI (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

16.30 -17.30                     Farewell cocktail 

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