The Humble in 19th- to 21st-Century British Literature and Arts

Name: The Humble in 19th- to 21st-Century British Literature and Arts
Brand: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
SKU: 9782367813981
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ISBN: 978-2-367-81398-1

de Isabelle Brasme (éditeur), Jean-Michel Ganteau (éditeur), Christine Reynier (éditeur)

Maison d'édition : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée

février 2022

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Résumé

Through its take on ‘the humble’, this volume attempts to reveal the depth and philosophical relevance of literature, its ethical and political dimension as well as its connection to life. Because it can be associated with social class, religion, psychology or ethics, the notion of ‘the humble’ lends itself to diverse types of studies. The papers collected in this volume argue that in the course of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, artists and writers have revisited the term ‘humble’ and, far from treating it as a simple motif, have raised it to the status of an aesthetic category. This category can first foster a better understanding of fiction, poetry, painting, and their representation of precarious lives through various genres and modes. It may also draw attention to neglected or depreciated humble novels or art forms that developed from the Victorian to the contemporary period, through the Edwardian and the modernist eras. Finally, it helps revise assumptions about the literature and art of the period and signals to a poetics of the humble. The works of art examined here explore the humble as a possible capacity and ethical force, a way of being and acting.

Auteur

Jean-Michel Ganteau (Edité par)

Jean-Michel Ganteau is Professor of Contemporary British Literature at the Université Paul-Valéry—Montpellier 3 (France) where he co-chaired the CERVEC research team between 2004 and 2010. He is at the moment in charge of the postgraduate programmes and at chairs the Doctoral School (ED58). He is the editor of the journal Études britanniques contemporaines (volume 49 has just been released). He is the author of three monographs: David Lodge: le choix de l’éloquence (Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2001), Peter Ackroyd et la musique du passé (Michel Houdiard, 2008) and The Aesthetics and Ethics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction (Routledge, 2015). He is also the editor, with Christine Reynier, of four volumes of essays Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth-Century British Literature (Publications Montpellier 3, 2005), Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth-Century British Arts (Presses universitaires de la Méditerrannée, 2007), Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Literature (PULM, 2010), and Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Arts (PULM, 2012). He has also edited several volumes of essays in collaboration with Susana Onega, The Ethical Component in Experimental British Fiction since the 1960s (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), Trauma and Ethics in Contemporary British Literature (Rodopi, 2010),Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Fiction (Routledge, 2013) and Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form (Routledge, 2014). He has edited special issues of various journals (Études anglaises, Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens). He has published numerous articles on contemporary British fiction, with a special interest in the ethics of affects (as manifest in such aesthetic resurgences and concretions as the baroque, kitsch, camp, melodrama, romance), in France and abroad (other European countries, the USA) as chapters in edited volumes or in such journals as Miscelanea, Anglia, Symbolism, The Cambridge Quarterly, etc.
Christine Reynier (Edité par)

Christine Reynier is Professor of English Literature at the University of Montpellier 3. She has published extensively on major modernist writers, edited books and journals on Woolf (Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens 62, octobre 2005; Journal of the Short Story in English 50, July 2008) and published Virginia Woolf’s Ethics of the Short Story (Palgrave Macmillan 2009). She is the editor, with J.-M. Ganteau, of Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Literature (PULM, 2010), Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Arts (PULM, 2012), Ethics of Alterity, Confrontation and Responsibility in 19^th- to 21^st-Century British Literature, PULM, 2013). She recently organized, with B. Coste and C. Delyfer, the 2013 European Science Foundation Workshop on Re-valuing Aestheticism and Modernism through their (Dis)credited Figures. Aesthetics, Ethics and Economics 1860-1940. Her latest publications include ‘The Outrageousness of Outrage in Daphne du Maurier’s “Monte Verità”,’ Études britanniques contemporaines 45 (déc. 2013) http://ebc.revues.org/577 and ‘Virginia Woolf’s Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy,’ John Hopkins University Press, Philosophy and Literature 38/1 (April 2014).