Victorian Persistence: Text, Image, Theory: ‘Virginia Woolf’s Victorians’
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 to be the subject of a seminar which will consider 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 will be chosen for each session: 1. theory/philosophy 2. academic criticism and 3. literature/journalism. They will be made available beforehand. 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.
The next session of our seminar will be held on Thursday 21st March at the Université Paris Diderot (Salle 580F, ‘Salle des thèses’, 17h-19h).
Marie Laniel (Maître de Conférence, Université d’Amiens – Picardie-Jules-Verne) will give a paper entitled ‘Virginia Woolf’s Victorians’.
Catherine Bernard (Professor of English literature and history of art, Université Paris Diderot) will be her respondent.
We will work with the following texts, which are available on our blog: http://victorianpersistence.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/victorian-persistence-seminar-session-14-virginia-woolfs-victorians/
- Leslie Stephen, Sketches from Cambridge (London and Cambridge: Macmillan, 1865).
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1929)
The seminar will take place in room 580F at the following address:
Salle 580F, suivre ‘Salle des thèses’, Halle aux farines, Hall F, 5ème étage: accès par le hall E, allée paire, ascenseur F, accès 9 esplanade Pierre Vidal-Naquet 75013 Paris ou 10 rue Françoise Dolto 75013 Paris, métro Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand.
Programme for the following sessions:
- 17th April 2013: Marie Ruiz (Université Paris Diderot), Overpopulation in Victorian England: ‘“Surplus Women”: Emigration as the nineteenth-century solution to female overpopulation’, Marie Terrier (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), ‘Annie Besant and nineteenth-century Neomalthusianism: “family limitation” or “birth-restricting checks” as remedy to overpopulation and poverty’. Pr. Myriam Boussahba Bravard (Université Paris Diderot) will be their respondent.
- 15th May 2013: Marina Poisson (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), ‘Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith: Persisting Figures, Persistent Visions’. Alain Jumeau (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne) will be her respondent.
- 12th June 2013: Helena Gurfinkel (Southern Illinois University), ‘The Ethics of the Signifier: Wilde with Lacan’. Pr. Pascal Aquien (Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne) will be her respondent.
For further information, contact Róisín Quinn-Lautrefin (roisinql@hotmail.fr) or Estelle Murail (estelle_murail@yahoo.fr)