Ethics of Alterity, Confrontation and Responsibility in 19th- to 21st-Century British literature
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-Au...
Éditeur : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Lieu d’édition : Montpellier
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 25 mars 2022
ISBN numérique : 978-2-36781-389-9
DOI : 10.4000/books.pulm.9645
Collection : Horizons anglophones
Année d’édition : 2013
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-2-36781-020-1
Nombre de pages : 257
Christine Reynier et Jean-Michel Ganteau
IntroductionFrédéric Regard
On Tears Shed at Brownlow Hill in the Summer of 1866: Alterity, Politics, and Style in Josephine Butler’s WritingsDavid Nowell Smith
‘I hold it towards you’: Alterity in Lyric AddressStephen Ross
Modernist Ethics, Critique, and UtopiaIsabelle Brasme
Towards an Ethics of Singularity: The Shattered Mirror of Identity in Ford Madox Ford’s Parades EndMaría J. López
Writers, Friends and Lovers: Virginia Woolf, G.E. Moore and the Aesthetics of Personal RelationsFlorence Marie-Laverrou
The Relation to the Other in John Cowper Powys’s Wolf Solent (1929)Rainer Emig
Beyond Alterity—Within Alterity: Edith Sitwell’s Self-Reflexive Assessments of ModernismPaula Martín Salván
‘To feel pity even for the planets’: The Aporias of Responsibility in Graham Greene’s The Heart of the MatterJulian Jiménez Hefferman
The Lay Community: Weil, Murdoch, Badiou and the Ethics of Other-CenterednessLaurent Mellet
Moral Questions and Ethical Answers: On some Responsibilities of British Satire in the 20th and 21st CenturiesVincent Dussol
James Kelman’s Confrontational Ethics in You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the FreeEileen Williams-Wanquet
The Ethics of Re-Writing: Jeanette Winterson’s Weight (2005)Michael Kindellan
Responsibility in Verse: William Wordsworth and J.H. PrynneOver 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.
Jean-Michel Ganteau (dir.)
Jean-Michel Ganteau is Professor of Contemporary British Literature at the University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 (France), where he chaired the Department of English Studies for four years and co-chaired the CERVEC research team between 2004 and 2010. He is at the moment in charge of the postgraduate programmes and of the Doctoral School (E.D.58). He is the editor of the journal Études britanniques contemporaines. He is the author of two monographs: David Lodge: le choix de l’éloquence (Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2001) and Peter Ackroyd et la musique du passé (Michel Houdiard, 2008). 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 being due in late 2011 (PULM). He has also edited three volumes of essays in collaboration with Susana Onega, The Ethical Component in Experimental British Fictionsince the 1960s (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), Trauma and Ethics in Contemporary British Literature (Rodopi, 2011) and Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Fiction (Routledge, 2013). He has edited special issues of various journals (Études anglaises, Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens). He has published some sixty 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 Miscelánea, Anglia, Symbolism, The Cambridge Quarterly, etc.
Christine Reynier (dir.)
Christine Reynier is Professor of English Literature at the University of Montpellier III. She has published extensively on major Modernist writers, edited books and journals on Woolf (Insights into the Legacy of Bloomsbury. With Unpublished Essays and Memoirs by Roger Fry, V. Bell and V. Woolf, Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens 62, octobre 2005; Journal of the Short Story in English, Special Issue on Woolf 50, July 2008) and published Virginia Woolf’s Ethics of the Short Story (Palgrave Macmillan 2009). She has also written a monograph on Jeanette Winterson, Le Miracle ordinaire (P.U. Bordeaux 2004). She is the editor, with J-M. Ganteau, of Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth-Century British Literature (Publications Montpellier 3, 2005), Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth-Century British Arts (Publications Montpellier 3, 2007), Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Literature (PULM, 2010) and Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Arts (PULM, 2012).
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