Table des matières

Isabelle Brasme, Jean-Michel Ganteau et Christine Reynier

Introduction

Part One. Humble Art Forms

Laurence Roussillon-Constanty

Artful Humility: A Pre-Raphaelite Ideal?

Sophie Aymes

Autographic Wood Engraving: Modernist D.I.Y

• D.I.Y.
• Carving a Niche
• Carving Aesthetics: Direct Attack

Claudia Tobin

‘The Humbleness of all his Objects’: Cézanne, Still Life, and Modern Writers

Part Two. Aestheticizing Religious Humility

Stéphane Sitayeb

From Humbleness to Humiliation: Physical Losses and Spiritual Gains in The Hill of Dreams, by Arthur Machen

• Aesthetics of Minimalism Emulating the Artist’s Asceticism and Humbleness
• The Artist’s Self-Humiliation: a Poetics of Violence and Theatricality

Shirley Bricout

The Humble Touch of the Good Samaritan in D. H. Lawrence’s Aaron’s Rod

• Orientation
• Disorientation
• Reorientation

José María Yebra

The (Extra)ordinary of Humbleness and Mutual Recognition in Colm Tóibín’s The Testament of Mary

Part Three. Gendering the Humble

Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz

The Humble, Gender, and the Local in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction

Susana Onega

Lesbian Invisibility and the Politics of Representation of the Lady and the Humble Servant in Sarah Waters’s Affinity

Part Four. Precariousness

Angela Locatelli

‘The Humble/d’ in Literature and Philosophy: Precariousness, Vulnerability, and the Pragmatics of Social Visibility

• ‘The Humble/d’ in Literature and Philosophy: A Premise
• Philosophy Thinking ‘The Humble’
• Literary Narratives Thinking ‘The Humble’
• Problematic allures the vie and Normative Perceptions: Marianne Faithfull’s Vagabond Ways
• Trajectories of Precariousness and Dispossession: Fay Weldon’s The Heart of the Country
• Vulnerability and Resilience: Chris Cleave’s Incendiary
• Precariousness and Resistance: John Lennon’s Working Class Hero
• Social Validation and the Magic of Names and Accents: Fay Weldon’s Darcy’s Utopia

Corina Stan

The Ship of Fools: Precarious Lives in 1660s/1980s England

• Faces of the Humble
• The Ship of Fools: a History of Madness in the Seventeenth Century

Silvia Pellicer Ortín

Writing and Loving: Strategies to Overcome Humbleness in Lynne Reid Banks’s Children at the Gate

• ‘Children at the Gate. . .’
• Representing the Humble: Race and Melancholia
• Overcoming the Humble: Writing and Loving
• ‘. . . Who will not go Away’

Part Five. Self-Effacement

Pascale Tollance

From Humiliation to Humility: Graham Swift’s Aesth/et(h)ics of Self-Effacement in The Light of Day

Xavier Le Brun

Leaving Jacob Room: Narratorial Humility in Jacob’s Room

Aude Haffen

The Brothel and the Kimono: Christopher Isherwood’s Humble, Queer, Inoperative Goodbye to Berlin

• Isherwood’s ‘leaning tower’ Depiction of Humbled Berliners Humble Berlin
• The Lost, or Humbled Middle-Class Berliners
• Working-Class Boys and Upper-Class Jews: the Brothel (Humbleness) and the Kimono (Humility)
• Goodbye to Berlin’s Vanishing Lines of Resistance Low Comedy
• Queer Amateurish Subversion
• Inoperative Art
• The Diary Form: Meanings Suspended
• Inartistic Art: a Humble Style?

Adeline Arniac

‘We can’t start again. We can end again: ’ Humble Inchoation in a Selection from Harold Pinter’s Memory Plays

Part Six. The British Humble Abroad

Leila Haghshenas

The Aesthetics of Humility in The Village in the Jungle

Laurent Mellet

‘The British Humble Abroad: Humanism in Practice in E.M. Forster’s First Novel (Where Angels Fear to Tread) and Jonathan Coe’s Latest (Expo 58)’

• Sending the British Abroad and Revealing Their Humbleness
• The Ethics and Politics of Literary Humbleness
• Writing and Aestheticising Humbleness
• Humanism and Humbleness in Practice

Notes on contributors