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]
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EA 741 - October 2009