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Victorian Persistence: text, image, theory: “Fictions of the Press: Gissing’s Lost Illusions”

Victorian Persistence: text, image, theory: “Fictions of the Press: Gissing’s Lost Illusions”

The next session of our seminar will take place on Wednesday 21st of May 2014 at the Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7 (Salle 165, Bâtiment Olympe-de-Gouges, 17h30-19h30).

 

Edmund Birch (University of Cambridge) will give a paper entitled “Fictions of the Press: Gissing’s Lost Illusions.” Pr. Nicholas White(University of Cambridge) will be his respondent.

 

 

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

 

- George Gissing, New Grub Street (1891). Chapter VIII, "To the Winning Side."

- George Gissing, Charles Dickens: A Critical Study (New York: Dodd, Mead and company, 1898). Chapter XI, "Comparisons."

- Guillaume Pinson, « L’imaginaire médiatique. Réflexions sur les représentations du journalisme au XIXe siècle », COnTEXTES [En ligne], 11 | 2012. URL: http://contextes.revues.org/5306

 

 

The seminar will be held at 5.30pm at the following address:

Salle 165, Bâtiment “Olympe-de-Gouges”, 8 place Paul-Ricœur – 75013 Paris.

 

Transports: Métro ligne 14 ou RER C, arrêt “Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand.” Tramway T3, arrêt ”Avenue de France.” Bus 62 ou 89, arrêt “Porte de France.”

 

 

 

Our following session will take place on the 11th of June 2014 (Université Paris Diderot, Halle aux farines, salle 265 E, 17h30):

Diane Leblond (Université Paris Diderot) will give a paper entitled "Ghosts from Wonderland: Jeanette Winterson's Gut Symmetries and the visual pragmatics of intertextuality." Her respondent will be Pr.  Jean-Jacques Lecercle (Université Paris X-Nanterre). 

 

 

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), Clémence Folléa (clemence.follea@gmail.com) or Estelle Murail (estelle_murail@yahoo.fr)