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The Emigrant’s Letter: Geographies of Production and Consumption

The Emigrant’s Letter: Geographies of Production and Consumption

Publié le par Matthieu Vernet (Source : Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7)

Victorian Persistence Seminar: “The Emigrant’s Letter: Geographies of Production and Consumption”


The next session of our seminar will take place on Wednesday 19th March 2014 at the Université Paris Diderot (Halle aux Farines, salle 575F, 17h30-19h30).

 

Fariha Shaikh (King’s College London) will give a paper entitled “The Emigrant’s Letter: Geographies of Production and Consumption.” Her respondent will be Pr. Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford, Man Booker Prize judge 2015).

 

We will work on the following image and texts, which can be found on our blog (http://victorianpersistence.wordpress.com/):

 

- James Collinson, Answering the Emigrant’s Letter, 1850. Oil on panel, 70.1 x 91.2 cm, Manchester City Galleries

- Twenty-four Letters from Labourers in America to their Friends in England (London: Edward Reinford, 1829)

- Miles Ogborn and Charles W.J. Withers (eds), Geographies Of The Book (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2010)


 

The seminar will be held at the following address: Salle 575F, Halle aux Farines, 5ème étage: accès par le hall F,  9 esplanade Pierre Vidal-Naquet 75013 Paris ou 10 rue Françoise Dolto 75013 Paris, métro Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand.


 

Programme for the following sessions:


- 9th April 2014: Fabienne Moine (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense): "A Sense of Belonging/s: Eliza Cook’s Contribution to Chartist Poetry." Michael Sanders (University of Manchester): "L’aube des prolétaires? Reading Chartist Poetry after Rancière." Respondent : Pr. Fabrice Bensimon (Université Paris-Sorbonne). 575 F


- 21st May 2014: Edmund Birch (University of Cambridge): "Fictions of the Press: Gissing's Lost Illusions." Respondent: Pr Nicholas White (University of Cambridge). 515 B


- 11th June 2014: Diane Leblond (Université Paris Diderot), "Ghosts from Wonderland: Jeanette Winterson's Gut Symmetries and the visual pragmatics of intertextuality." Respondent: Pr.  Jean-Jacques Lecercle (Université Paris X-Nanterre). 265 E


 

 

Victorian Persistence: Text, Image, Theory

The present-day globalization of Victorian writing can be traced back to the extraordinary plasticity of its textual and visual forms, as it travels from place to place and media to media. Such temporal, geographical, cultural and intermedial persistence is the subject of this seminar which considers the different modes of resistance of literature within the nineteenth-century as well as its survival and rebirth in later times. Three texts from the following domains are chosen for each session: 1. theory/philosophy 2. academic criticism and 3. literature/journalism. They are made available on our blog before each session. The idea of the seminar is to allow speakers to discuss their area of research with others through a study of the three texts and chosen images, and thus open out the subject to other corpora, centuries, disciplines.


 

 This seminar takes place at the Université Paris Diderot and is supervised by Professor Sara Thornton as part of the LARCA research centre (UMR 8225 du CNRS).

 

For further information, contact Róisín Quinn-Lautrefin (roisinql@hotmail.fr) or Estelle Murail (estelle_murail@yahoo.fr)