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Over the last few decades, in the wake of the ‘Ethical Turn’, contemporary literature has been examined through the prism of the ethics of alterity. Yet, this may not be consis­tently the case with Victorian and Modernist literature, since relatively few of the authors of those periods have elicited such critical and ­theoretical scrutiny. The articles in this volume set off to re-read Victorian and Modernist literature in the light of the ethics of alterity and investigate whether the post-Auschwitz, contemporary period breaks away from or favours lines of continuity with the productions of the earlier era. It also strives to address works which do not belong to the canon, focusing alternately on great authors and less known artists, on what has been termed ‘minor’ texts or genres that are less visible than the novel. Approaching literature by examining the relations between ethics and aesthetics, even while adopting an ethical approach, helps the authors in this volume contribute to revising the contemporary, Modernist and Victorian canon in English Literature.

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 19th- to 21st-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).

Caractéristiques

Editeur : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée

Publication : 25 mars 2022

Intérieur : Noir & blanc

Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [PDF + Mobi/Kindle + WEB + ePub]

Contenu(s) : PDF, Mobi/Kindle, WEB, ePub

Protection(s) : Marquage social (PDF), Marquage social (Mobi/Kindle), DRM (WEB), Marquage social (ePub)

Taille(s) : 1,57 Mo (PDF), 4,47 Mo (Mobi/Kindle), 1 octet (WEB), 1,84 Mo (ePub)

Langue(s) : Anglais

Code(s) CLIL : 3643, 4033

EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [PDF + Mobi/Kindle + WEB + ePub] : 9782367813899

EAN13 (papier) : 9782367810201

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