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View article: May Sinclair’s Romantic Corpus
May Sinclair’s Romantic Corpus Open
This paper explores May Sinclair’s Modernist appropriation of Romantic tropes and experimentations. As a literary critic, Sinclair (1863-1946) wrote influential papers on Modernist poetry, but barely mentions Romantic poets in her many ess…
View article: Introduction
Introduction Open
This volume proposes to bring to light an alternative account of the place held by May Sinclair within the philosophical and literary scene of early-twentieth-century Britain. Since the New Modernist Studies were initiated by Douglas Mao a…
View article: ‘No Other House Will Ever Be to You What I Have Been’: Atopic Domesticity, Social Affects and Place-Identity in May Sinclair
‘No Other House Will Ever Be to You What I Have Been’: Atopic Domesticity, Social Affects and Place-Identity in May Sinclair Open
Sinclair’s marked interest in domestic settings stands out of the modernist canon. Homes are never just a backdrop in Sinclair; if they stand for various periods of time and specific emotions in Tasker Jevons: The Real Story (145), thereby…
View article: An Ecofeminist Foremother? Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Oneiric Representation of Nature, Technology and Gender Roles in “Sultana’s Dream”
An Ecofeminist Foremother? Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Oneiric Representation of Nature, Technology and Gender Roles in “Sultana’s Dream” Open
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s 1905 short story “Sultana’s Dream” depicts a utopian alliance between nature, science and women. As Sultana dreams of Ladyland, a country where men are “where they ought to be […], shut […] indoors”, she marvels a…
View article: Introduction - Les normes de genre à l’épreuve de la représentation des corps
Introduction - Les normes de genre à l’épreuve de la représentation des corps Open
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View article: Ronjaunee Chatterjee, Feminine Singularity: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Ronjaunee Chatterjee, Feminine Singularity: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature Open
Feminine Singularity is composed of four chapters that broach French and English poetic and narrative traditions and respectively turn to Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal and his collection of ess…
View article: Mental images and false memories: the classical cognitive approach vs. embodied cognition
Mental images and false memories: the classical cognitive approach vs. embodied cognition Open
View article: « On Being Ill » : écritures de la maladie et du soin dans trois romans féminins de l’intermodernisme
« On Being Ill » : écritures de la maladie et du soin dans trois romans féminins de l’intermodernisme Open
Cet article propose une étude des représentations du soin et de la maladie dans trois romans féminins de l’intermodernisme britannique : South Riding de Winifred Holtby (1936), Living Alone (1919) de Stella Benson et Private Worlds (1934) …
View article: High Destination Memory for Emotionally Incongruent Information
High Destination Memory for Emotionally Incongruent Information Open
This article investigates the effect of emotion on destination memory. Participants were asked to tell neutral, positive, and negative information to neutral, positive, and negative faces. Afterward, participants were asked to remember to …
View article: “I saw at a glance that your case was exceptional, and that you also were Occult”: Comedy, magic and exceptional disabilities in Stella Benson’s Living Alone (1919)
“I saw at a glance that your case was exceptional, and that you also were Occult”: Comedy, magic and exceptional disabilities in Stella Benson’s Living Alone (1919) Open
That Stella Benson’s Living Alone (1919) has received little critical attention can probably be explained both by its paradoxical articulation of absurd comedy, fantasy and psychological realism, and by the overwhelming influence of except…
View article: Woolf parrèsiaste
Woolf parrèsiaste Open
Cet article est un compte-rendu du livre : Virginia Woolf, Carnet Inédit (1907-1909), édition présentée et traduite par Mireille Duchêne, Dijon : Éditions Universitaires de Dijon, 2019, 228 p., EAN 9782364412996.
View article: Lire les affects comme un poème
Lire les affects comme un poème Open
Cet article est un compte-rendu du livre : Jean-Michel Rabaté, Rire au soleil. Des affects en littérature, Paris : Campagne Première, 2019, 212 p., EAN 9782372060516.
View article: « Freud, or Jung, or one of those johnnies, had a case exactly like my uncle’s »: case narratives, pretheorisation and formal hybridity in may sinclair’s short fiction
« Freud, or Jung, or one of those johnnies, had a case exactly like my uncle’s »: case narratives, pretheorisation and formal hybridity in may sinclair’s short fiction Open
La forme brève est pour la romancière moderniste britannique May Sinclair (1863-1946), un double laboratoire lui permettant de prolonger ses recherches scientifiques et de tester de nouvelles expérimentations esthétiques. Sinclair est en e…
View article: Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada & Anne Besnault-Levita, Beyond the Victorian/Modernist Divide: Remapping the Turn-of-the-Century Break in Literature, Culture and the Visual Arts
Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada & Anne Besnault-Levita, Beyond the Victorian/Modernist Divide: Remapping the Turn-of-the-Century Break in Literature, Culture and the Visual Arts Open
The question of the Victorian/Modernist divide is a stimulating area of research for both modernist and Victorian scholars. In 2006, Mao & Walkowitz reconsidered the ‘definitions, locations, and producers of “modernism”’, ‘enlarging the pe…
View article: Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada & Anne Besnault-Levita, Beyond the Victorian/Modernist Divide: Remapping the Turn-of-the-Century Break in Literature, Culture and the Visual Arts
Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada & Anne Besnault-Levita, Beyond the Victorian/Modernist Divide: Remapping the Turn-of-the-Century Break in Literature, Culture and the Visual Arts Open
View article: “Effy’s Passion for the Mother Who Had Not Loved her was the Supernatural Thing”: Haunting as an expression of attachment in May Sinclair’s “The Intercessor”
“Effy’s Passion for the Mother Who Had Not Loved her was the Supernatural Thing”: Haunting as an expression of attachment in May Sinclair’s “The Intercessor” Open
Cet article propose une genealogie de la hantise dans la nouvelle “The Intercessor” (1911) de May Sinclair et explore la maniere dont le texte deplace le fantastique de la presence spectrale a l’absence de lien mere-enfant. En effet, l’enf…
View article: From body Language to Verbal Language : Making Sense of Sensations in May Sinclair's Mary Olivier : A Life (1919)
From body Language to Verbal Language : Making Sense of Sensations in May Sinclair's Mary Olivier : A Life (1919) Open