Ethics of Alterity, Confrontation and Responsibility in 19th- to 21st-Century British literature

Name: Ethics of Alterity, Confrontation and Responsibility in 19th- to 21st-Century British literature
Brand: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
SKU: 9782367813899
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ISBN: 978-2-367-81389-9

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

Maison d'édition : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée

mars 2022

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Résumé

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.