{"id":1223,"date":"2013-07-02T22:22:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T20:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2017-12-27T01:20:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T23:20:02","slug":"beyond-the-victorian-and-modernist-divide-march-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"University of Rouen \u2013 27-28 March 2014 \u2013 Call for Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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International Conference March, 27-28 2014, University of Rouen (<\/strong>ERIAC)
\nAnne Besnault-Levita, Anne-Florence Gillard Estrada<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Call for papers
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Beyond the Victorian and Modernist Divide<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ezra Pound\u2019s injunction to \u201cmake it new!\u201d or Virginia Woolf\u2019s \u201con or about 1910\u201d statement have long been used in order to support a version of modernism as a strictly aesthetic revolution \u2014 or crisis \u2014 implying an essential break with Victorian art, culture and ideology. In the last decade, however, the crucial transition between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has been variously reassessed. In the wake of the new modernist studies and of the recent revaluations of the Victorian period, a growing body of scholarship now challenges traditional periodisation by examining the existence of overlaps and unexplored continuities between the Victorians, the post-Victorians and the modernists. Once separated by a critical and cultural break, Victorian and modernist scholars have become preoccupied with a similar search for cultural and aesthetic complexities that make it possible to move beyond doxic discourses and fixed dichotomies: the past and the present, outer life and inner life, materiality and spirituality, tradition and innovation, ideology and aesthetics.<\/p>\n

This international conference would like those scholars to join forces and contribute to this new phase in the Victorian-modern debate from a broad range of perspectives across the disciplines: literature, criticism, the visual arts, history, science and philosophy. The emergence or re-emergence of ideas such as the \u201cmodern\u201d, the \u201cnew\u201d or \u201cchange\u201d at the turn of the century is an indisputable fact that we want to acknowledge and re-contextualize by examining the different meanings and practices they encompass. From there, we wish to explore the birth and perpetration of two critical meta-narratives and their interdependence: the myth of \u201chigh modernism\u201d and the myth of \u201cVictorianism\u201d. If there is no clear repudiation of history and heritage on the modernists\u2019 part, if \u201crupture\u201d was a useful fiction, if the challenge to traditional aesthetics and ideology was already a Victorian preoccupation, then we definitely need to remap modernism and Victorianism simultaneously.<\/p>\n

The papers that we call for are meant to contribute to a trans-disciplinary publication whose synopsis could be the following, although it is far from being fixed.<\/p>\n

I- Periods, words, labels: historicizing and contextualizing the idea of the \u201cbreak\u201d
\nII- Victorian, Edwardian and modernist literature: unexplored lines of filiation
\nIII- Art history, aesthetic philosophy and the visual arts across the Victorian\/Modernist divide
\nIV- Science, philosophy, ideology: landmarks for a new history of ideas
\nV- New approaches to identity, gender and the self: from mid-Victorians to modernist ideologies and practices.<\/p>\n

Keynote speakers
\nProfessor Michael Bentley, University of St. Andrews
\nProfessor Melba Cuddy-Keane, University of Toronto<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Exploring the birth and perpetration of two critical meta-narratives and their interdependence: the myth of \u201chigh modernism\u201d and the myth of \u201cVictorianism\u201d.
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