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Sally Shuttleworth on literature, science and the crossing of boundaries
No full textLundi 12 février 2024, salle 2.41 (MdR), 16h30-18h30: séance autour de Sally Shuttleworth Sally Shuttleworth (Oxford University) : On Literature, Science and the Crossing of Disciplinary Boundaries Répondantes: Nathalie Vanfasse et Anais Marti
Elisabeth Jay on cultural mediation and Helen Small on weaving together literature, intellectual history and philosophy
No full textLundi 4 décembre 2023, salle 2.41 (MdR), 16h30-18h30: séance autour d'Elisabeth Jay et Helen Small Elisabeth Jay (Oxford Brookes University) : British writers in Paris during the Victorian period: their role as cultural mediators Helen Small (Oxford University) : Weaving together literature, intellectual history and philosophy to shed new light upon crucial societal questions Répondants: Nathalie Vanfasse, Kevin Cristin et Léa Fourur
Dickens’s burial in Westminster Abbey. the untold story
No full textThis essay adopts a microhistorical approach to reassess the circumstances surrounding Dickens’s death and burial. Using previously unseen documentary evidence, it alters the canonical details provided by John Forster, which have been the basis of almost every account of the author’s interment over the past 150 years. It demonstrates that the author’s previously unacknowledged relationship with the writer Frederick Locker, and with Locker’s brother-in-law Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, the Dean of Westminster (who buried Dickens), was paramount in determining the conditions of Dickens’s funeral, and his final resting-place. This biographical “turn” permits fuller elucidation of events in the period 9-13 June 1870, about which Forster in particular was silent. There emerges a strong argument that all the participants in Dickens’s funeral - particularly the family and intimate friends, and Dean Stanley - were anxious either to keep the circumstances surrounding the funeral private, or to manufacture them in such a way as to preserve Dickens’s public reputation, and subscribe to the national interest.</p
Claire Davison, Béatrice Laurent, Caroline Patey, Natalie Vanfasse (eds.) Provence and the British Imagination
Get PDFClaire Davison, Béatrice Laurent,
Caroline Patey, Natalie Vanfasse (eds.)
Provence and the British Imagination
(Milano, Ledizioni, 2013, 235 pp. ISBN 978-886-705-137-3)
di Paolo Capon
Frontières dans la littérature de voyage.
No full textNuméro spécial de la revue E-rea (Revue électronique d'études sur le monde anglophone) 14.1 / 2016International audienceCe numéro spécial de la revue E-rea (Revue électronique d'études sur le monde anglophone) intitulé "Frontières dans la littérature de voyage : nouvelles pistes de recherche Sous la direction de Nathalie Bernard, Ruth Menzies et Nathalie Vanfasse" comprend une introduction générale et dix articles. Il comprend en outre un grand entretien dirigé par Sophie Vallas, deux articles hors thème et quatre recensions d'ouvrages
Nathalie Vanfasse on Le Spectre du document dans l’œuvre romanesque de Charles Dickens
No full textInternational audiencePrest's remarkable monograph is derived from her award-winning PhD thesis (Prix de la Chancellerie de Paris ; Robert Partlow Prize of the Dickens Society). Le Spectre du document dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Charles Dickens tackles a quintessential facet of Dickens's work that has never before been dealt with as broadly and systematically, namely the materiality of written texts, and particularly paper. Céline Prest argues that the material basis and what is written on it paradoxically often turns out to block rather than to contribute to the transmission of messages. The reason for that is that, in Dickens's writings, documents tend not only to proliferate to the point of being impossible to decipher, but also to disintegrate at times into their essential components. As for the texts they convey, they too break down into incoherent messages made up of isolated letters that no longer add up to make sense. These material elements are neither neglected nor dismissed by Dickens. He uses them as a pretext not for reading, but for the production of pure sensual pleasure. In a context of widespread development of printing technologies and of the paper industry, as well as of significant progress in education, Céline Prest hypothesizes that this surprising decline of the written word at the very moment when it was at its height gives rise, in Dickens's writing, to a dream of other forms of writing. This very convincing demonstration is based on powerful close-readings, which are one of the many great qualities of this research work. Céline Prest tackles a broad Dickensian corpus, focusing in particular on the novels David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend, as well as on a few well-chosen newspaper articles that shed light on the subject ("City of Unlimited Paper"; "Bill Sticking"; "Valentine's Day at the Post-Office"...). The monograph places these subtle textual analyses in their historical context, tracing in detail the conditions of document manufacturing and distribution in the Victorian era. It also draws on numerous theoretical texts that shed additional light on the passages studied. All of this results in highly original interpretations of Dickens's work. Céline Prest examines the role played in Dickens's work by various documents with secret content, such as Tom Jarndyce's lost will in Bleak House, Dr. Manette's manuscript-testament in A Tale of Two Cities, John Harmon Sr.'s last will and testament in Our Mutual Friend, the codicil in Little Dorrit, and various letters or messages exchanged by characters in Bleak House and Great Expectations. The passage devoted to the links between secrecy and secretion is highly original, and Céline Prest describes this phenomenon as "the art of hiding in broad daylight". The book examines various forms of inscription in public spaces (signs, posters, printed matter, drowning notices) that conceal implicit or imagined narratives, but also prove deceptive, and are at times transposed to private places where they appear incongruous and take on a different meaning. Céline Prest explores a notion taken from the novel Bleak House, that of "walls made of words". She is also interested in the very act of reading, focusing on various characters who read in Dickens's novels. Prest shows that in the act of reading, reading itself becomes at times secondary to preoccupations with social status, feigned postures and scenes of seduction. Books in Dickensian novels even come to be used for other purposes than reading, such as ensuring the balance of a tea set or serving as projectiles. Another great analysis is devoted to Dora's intertwined curls of paper frill in the novel David Copperfield, which enable the character to</div
N. Vanfasse, La plume et la route. Charles Dickens écrivain-voyageur
No full textNathalie Vanfasse, La plume et la route. Charles Dickens écrivain-voyageur, Presses Univrsitaires d'Aix-Marseille, 2017. Cette monographie fait découvrir Charles Dickens sous un autre visage, moins connu que celui de romancier, celui d’écrivain-voyageur. Dickens publia en effet au cours de sa vie trois récits de voyage (American Notes, Pictures from Italy et Le Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices écrit en collaboration avec Wilkie Collins) ainsi qu’un volume d’articles viatiques (The Uncommerci..
Two Londoners: Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf
No full textBy examining the state of criticism of two famous british authors, Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf, Orestano argues that their lives and works are to be viewed in strict relation to the city in which they dwell and become writers; in addition to this, their works are examined, especially through the critical lens of the dialectics East End West End, which affect so much of their fiction. Eventually evidence is given of the lifelong interest of Woolf in Dickens's construction of character and place; a place that also for Woolf is the basis of her entire production, and indeed a text, eliciting lifelong curiosity and investigation
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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