CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
British Aestheticisms: Sources, Genres, Definitions, Evolutions Montpellier, October 2-3 2009 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Friday 2 October 8.30am-8.45am: Registration in Hall of Building BRED 8.45-9am: Introduction by Catherine Delyfer & Bénédicte Coste (conference organizers) 9am-10am: Plenary session (BRED, Salle Jourda) Guest Speaker: Dr. Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada) ―Materializing the Word: Aestheticism and the Art of the Book‖ *Coffee break* PANEL A – AESTHETICISM AND THE VISUAL ARTS (BRED, Salle Jourda) PANEL B - THE ROLE OF CRITICISM, W. PATER, AND O. WILDE (Building C, Room C20) 10.15am-12.15pm – Chair: Catherine Delyfer 10.15am-12.15pm – Chair: Joseph Bristow Anne Anderson (University of Exeter, UK) ―Old Blue and Sunflowers: Constructing Aesthetic Tastes, London and Paris in the 1860s‖ Richard Hayes (University of Cambridge, UK) ―Oscar Wilde, E.W. Godwin and the Role of Criticism in Aestheticism‖ Lene Ostermark-Johansen (University of Cophenhagen, Denmark) ―Frieze: Getting beneath the surface of the past in aestheticist painting and writing‖ Megan Becker-Leckrone (University of Nevada, Las Vegas USA) ―Oscar Wilde‘s Cosmopolitan Aestheticism‖ Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada (Université de Rouen, France) ―Aspiring to the Condition of Something Else : Walter Pater and the Aesthetic Painters‖ Richard Hibbitt (University of Leeds, UK) ―Oscar Wilde and la critique impressionniste‖ Koenraad Claes (Ghent University, Belgium): ―Revival(s) of Modern Printing: exclusive socialists and the accessibly elite‖ Nikolaï Endres (Western Kentucky University, USA) ―Wilde Wagner: The Sexual Politics of Queer Aestheticism‖ Lunch at the Brasserie des Arts Lunch at the Brasserie des Arts 2pm-3.30pm – Chair : Laurent Bury 2pm-3.30pm – Chair : Kate Hext (University of Exeter) Gabriella Bologna (University of Verona, Italy) ―The Aesthetic of British Pictorial Photography. A case study: James Craig Annan‘s portfolio Venice and Lombardy. A Series of Original Photogravures‖ Joseph Bristow (UCLA, USA) ―Wilde‘s Aestheticism and Emergent Modernism in the New Age‖ Audrey Doussot (Université de Bourgogne, France) : “Laurence Housman (1865-1959): esthète, conteur, illustrateur‖ Isabelle Enaud-Lechien (Université Lille 3, France) ―James McNeill Whistler à l‘exposition inaugurale de la Grosvenor Gallery de Londres en 1877— héraut d‘un esthétisme en train de se définir?‖ Emily Eells (Université de Paris-Nanterre, France) ―From Wilde to Proust: The Twisted Threads of Life and Art‖ Stefano Evangelista (Trinity College, Oxford, UK) ―Wilde and European Modernism: Reception and Resistance‖ *Coffee break* 4pm-5pm – Chair : Françoise Baillet Laurent Bury (Université de Lyon 2, France) ― ‗Art is Nationhood‘: Aestheticism and Nationalism in George Moore‘s Art Criticism‖ D.C. Rose (O‘SCHOLARS editor, Paris, France) ―The Destroyed Canvas as Response to Aestheticism in the Work of Basil Hallward, Claude Lantier, and Dick Helder‖ 4pm-5pm – Chair : Bénédicte Coste Thomas Albrecht (Tulane University, USA) ―The Poetics of Aesthetic Criticism in Walter Pater‘s The Renaissance‖ Ranald Macdonald (University of Aberdeen, UK) ―British Hegelianism and Walter Pater‖ 8pm — Conference Dinner in town (Brasserie du théâtre) Saturday 3 October 9am-10am : Plenary session (BRED, Salle Jourda) Guest speaker: Dr. Talia Schaffer (CUNY, USA) on ―New Histories of Aestheticism‖ *Coffee break* PANEL B - THE POSTERITY OF AESTHETICISM (Building C. Room C20) PANEL A – AESTHETIC VISIONS (BRED, Salle Jourda) 10.15am-12.15pm : From Dress to Text Chair: Anne Anderson 10.15am-12.15pm: Between Romanticism and Modernism Chair: Stefano M. Evangelista J. B. Bullen (Reading University) ―Dante Gabriel Rossetti‘s ‗Blue Silk Dress‘ and the Socio-Political Roots of Aesthetic Costume‖ Andrew Eastham (independent scholar) ―Henry James‘s Late Fiction and the Return of the Sublime in Aesthetic Culture‖ Catherine Rovera (Université Paris-Dauphine) ―Esthétisme et culture populaire: parodies de dandies‖ Francoise Baillet (Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France) ―Je t'aime, moi non plus. George du Maurier, Punch and Aestheticism‖ Rita Severi (University of Verona, Italy) ―From Esteticismo to Dannunzianesimo. How Italian Decadent Writers Reacted to British Cultural Influence‖ Norbert Lennartz (Universität Bonn, Germany) ―Self-Destructive Aestheticism – the Deconstruction of the Aestheticist Mode in British Fiction‖ Denis Simon (Technische Universität, Dresden, Germany) ―New Narrative Forms as a Subversion of Established Literary Norms: Walter Pater‘s Marius the Epicurean and Oscar Wilde‘s The Picture of Dorian Gray as Examples of the Negative Aesthetic Bildungsroman‖ Heather Marcovitch (Red Deer College, Canada) ―The Modernist Oscar Wilde: Figures of Wilde in the Works of Djuna Barnes, James Joyce and Christopher Isherwood‖ Lunch at the Brasserie des Arts 2pm-4pm: Aestheticism and Gender Chair: Lorraine J. Kooistra Ana Raquel Rojas (University of Scranton, USA) ―Gender for Art‘s Sake: Fin-de-siècle Women Writers and the Femme Fatale‖ Sophie Geoffroy (Université de La Réunion, France) ―Aestheticism : a gender(ed) issue ? Vernon Lee, Beauty and Aestheticism‖ Sarah Townley (University of Nottingham, UK) ―Redefining Aestheticism: Vernon Lee and the Reading Public‖ Lunch at the Brasserie des Arts 2-4pm : From Modernism to Post-Modernism Chair: Christine Reynier (Montpellier III) Linda Wong (Hong Kong Baptist University, China) ―Aestheticism Re-examined in the Modern Chinese Context‖ Julie Sauvage (Montpellier III, France) ―Choose your Camp: Commitment and Aestheticism in Angela Carter‘s Novels‖ Tristan Grünberg (Paris III, France) ―Salomé, reine d‘Angleterre: destinées esthétiques de la Salomé d‘Oscar Wilde‖ Justine Gonneaud (Montpellier III, France) ―Ethique et esthétisme de l'androgyne : de Rolfe à Winterson‖ *Coffee break* 4.30 pm-5.30 pm: Final plenary session (BRED, Salle Jourda) Guest speaker: Dr. Pamela Gerrish Nunn (Independent scholar, New Zealand) ―Alienation, Adoption or Adaptation? Aestheticist Paintings by Women‖ 5. 30 pm: Closing reception sponsored by THE OSCHOLARS and the Société Oscar Wilde Les esthétismes britanniques : sources, genres, définitions, évolutions A conference organised by Dr. B. Coste and Dr. C. Delyfer, with the warm and generous support of EA 741 and additional sponsorship from O’SCHOLARS Contacts: Catherine Delyfer [email protected] Bénédicte Coste [email protected] EA 741 « Etudes des pays anglophones » (http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/pays_anglophones) O‘Scholars (http://www.oscholars.com/) EA 741 - October 2009