Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada (editor) - Beyond the Victorian/ Modernist Divide: Remapping the Turn-of-the-Century Break in Literature, Culture and the Visual Arts

Beyond the Victorian/Modernist Divide

Beyond the Victorian/Modernist Divide contributes to a new phase in the Victorian-modern debate of traditional periodization through the perspective lens of literature and the visual arts. Breaking away from conventionally fixed discourses and dichotomies, this book utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to examine the existence of overlaps and unexplored continuities between the Victorians, the post-Victorians, and the modernists, including the fields of music, architecture, design, science, and social life. Furthermore, the book remaps the cultural history of two critical meta-narratives and their interdependence the myth of high modernism and the myth of Victorianism by building on recent scholarly work and addressing the question of the turn of the century break theory with a new set of arguments and contributions.

Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada is Associate Professor at the University of Rouen. She defended a PhD on Hellenism and Greece in Walter Paters works at Paris -7-Denis Diderot (received with highest honors) and has published articles on Pater, Wilde, and Victorian classical / Aesthetic painting. She has coedited crire lart / Writing Art: Formes et enjeux du discours sur les arts visuels en Grande-Bretagne et aux Etats-Unis (Paris: Mare et Martin, 2015) She is currently writing a monograph on the figurations of Greece and the body in British paintings of Antiquity (18601900) and their reception in art criticism and periodicals.

Anne Besnault-Levita is Senior Lecturer at the University of Rouen where she teaches English literature; she is also the Vice President of the French Virginia Woolf Society. In 1997, she defended her PhD dissertation on the short stories by Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, and Elizabeth Bowen, at the University of Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle and obtained first class honors. She is the author of Katherine Mansfield: La voix du Moment (Paris: Messne, 1997) and coeditor of Construire le sujet. Dirs (eds) Anne Besnault-Levita, Natalie Depraz et Rolf Wintermeyer (Limoges: Lambert Lucas, 2014) and The Journal of the Short Story in English 64 (Spring 2015), Part One: The Modernist Short Story. She is currently working on a book on Virginia Woolfs conception of literary history.

Among the Victorians and Modernists

Edited by Dennis Denisoff

This series publishes monographs and essay collections on literature, art, and culture in the context of the diverse aesthetic, political, social, technological, and scientific innovations that arose among the Victorians and Modernists. Viable topics include, but are not limited to, artistic and cultural debates and movements; influential figures and communities; and agitations and developments regarding subjects such as animals, commodification, decadence, degeneracy, democracy, desire, ecology, gender, nationalism, the paranormal, performance, public art, sex, socialism, spiritualities, transnationalism, and the urban. Studies that address continuities between the Victorians and Modernists are welcome. Work on recent responses to the periods such as neo-Victorian novels, graphic novels, and film will also be considered.

1 Arthur OShaughnessy, A Pre-Raphaelite Poet in the British Museum
Jordan Kistler

2 Dialectics of Secrecy and Disclosure in Victorian Fiction
Leila May

3 Louise Jopling
Patricia de Montfort

4 Gender and the Intersubjective Sublime in Faulkner, Forster, Lawrence, and Woolf
Erin K. Johns Speese

5 Victorian Sustainability in Literature and Culture
Edited by Wendy Parkins

6 The Occult Imagination in Britain, 18751947
Edited by Christine Ferguson and Andrew Radford

7 Beyond the Victorian/Modernist Divide
Remapping the Turn-of-the-Century Break in Literature, Culture and the Visual Arts
Edited by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada and Anne Besnault-Levita

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This book began as particularly fruitful discussions during the Beyond the Victorian and Modernist Divide International Conference that took place at the University of Rouen in March 2014. We first thank the English Department and Professors Miguel Olmos and Marc Martinez, directors of our research center ERIAC, who supported our project. Many thanks to our keynote speakers, Professors Michael Bentley, Laura Marcus, and Melba Cuddy-Keane, and to all the participants and the colleagues, who helped us with the organization of the conference and the scientific committee: Christine Reynier, Graldine Vaughan, Anne-Laure Tissut, and Myriam Boussahba-Bravard.

We are also grateful to our colleagues and friends Professors Catherine Bernard, Isabelle Gadoin, Elizabeth Prettejohn, and Claire Joubert who provided expertise to define the outline of the volume and who commented on parts of its drafts.

We express our sincere thanks and appreciation to Dennis Denisoff, who encouraged and assisted us in the process of publication of this volume, and to Michelle Salyaga at Routledge for her enthusiasm and her help.

Anna Antonowicz is Lecturer at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. Following a Ph.D. dissertation Orientalism Revisited: Indian art in the policy of the Victoria and Albert Museum in the mid-Victorian period her continued research focuses on aesthetics and art, and in particular on the question of modernity in Victorian dress and design.

Anne Besnault-Levita is Associate Professor at the University of Rouen- Normandy. She is also the Vice-president of the French Virginia Woolf Society (SEW). Her research and teaching interests are British modernism, the short story, genre and gender in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, feminist criticism. She is the author of Katherine Mansfield: La voix du Moment (Paris: Messne, 1997), and co-editor of Construire le sujet. Textes runis et dits par Anne Besnault-Levita, Natalie Depraz et Rolf Wintermeyer (Limoges: Lambert Lucas, 2014). Her recent publications include papers on French and Anglo-Saxon feminism, Virginia Woolf as critic, the modernist and contemporary short story. She is currently working on a book on Virginia Woolfs conception of literary history.