Workshop 8 June 2021
(Aix-Marseille; Montpellier; UC Berkeley)
(9 am – 10:15 am) Session 1: Modes / media of knowledge
Laura Ritland: “‘Disinterestedness” as a Victorian critical concept”
Max Kaisler: “Barometry / the barometer: atmospheric Pressure, feeling and knowledge”
Kévin Cristin: “Travel writing and engineering: Robert Louis Stevenson’s professional and literary wanderings”
(10:20-10:50 am) Session 2: Roundtable
“Decolonizing Victorian Studies” – a conversation: Sukanya Banerjee, Ian Duncan
(10:50-11:00 am) BREAK
11:00-12:15 Session 3: Gender / sex / the self
Charlotte Chassefière: “Constructions of the self in the novels of Charlotte Dacre”
Mary Mussman: “Biographical apocrypha, novelistic analogy, the roman à clef, and A.C. Swinburne’s re-conceiving of gender vis-à-vis George Sand”
Alice Borrego: “Destabilising discursivity in Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier (1918)”
12:15-12:30 Discussion:
Wrapping up / looking forward (to the fall workshop)