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“An Unpleasant Book about Unpleasant Boys at an Unpleasant School”: Kipling’s Reshaping of the Victorian School Story in “Stalky & Co.”
2022
“Slaves of the Lamp, Part One”—the first tale of Rudyard Kipling’s Stalky & Co.—was published in 1897, forty years after the publication of Thomas Hughes’s Tom Brown’s Schooldays, a book that created a pattern followed by other practitioners of the school-story genre. The aim of the following paper is to discuss the ways in which Kipling challenged the established conventions of the Victorian school story. In contrast to his predecessors, Kipling did not set his tales in an old, established public school; he questioned the importance of sports and games in developing manly character; and refused to idolize the school traditions. His protagonists rebel against authority and do not follow…
Introduction “‘Literary Offenses’ and Other Contentious Matter” A one-day conference on Literary Controversyin Great Britain and the United States (1…
2017
International audience
Believing in Victorian Times, octobre 2012.
2013
International audience; Those articles deals with several notable aspects of beliefs in Victorian England
The notion of physical and moral well-being : relationship and interaction in George Eliot's literary works
2020
This dissertation analyzes the concept of well-being in the writings of George Eliot in order to account for the question of the individual in his/her relationships with the other and others such as animals and the environment so as to obtain physical, moral as well as personal and social well-being along the resulting ethics and aesthetics. For the novelist, well-being finds its source in the individuals’ suffering in British nineteenth-century society. Conceiving well-being from Eliot’s point of view therefore means giving priority to individual relationships and interactions. This relational vision of well-being amounts to considering the social regularities related to community life, th…
Forms of Artistic Commitments (1880-1940) Introduction
2016
International audience; Introduction to a series of essays
« Before fin de siècle: periodical cosmopolitanism of the 1860s and 1870s»
2014
International audience; This presentation explores nascent cosmopolitanism as manifested in the Liberal 'Fortnightly Review' under John Morley's editorship (1867-82)
Art and Commitment in the British Music Hall in its Golden Age
2013
International audience; My own speciality is the British music-hall, especially its later period, after 1900. I like to see this form of popular entertainment as fitting into a series of stories: at least three storiesFirstly, as an industry, and as a repertoire of songs, it fits into the history of popular music, in the period before the domination of recorded or broadcast music, when live performance and sheet music were practically the only modes of distribution. It is a period when many aspects of today’s popular music were not present – there were no live recordings of songs to contrast with their studio versions, no post-production, and where singing along in a group, rather than othe…
Displacing Victorian Women: Mid-Nineteenth Century Popular Drama and the Representation of Female Identity
2019
La presente tesis contribuye al actual interés por rescatar las cuestiones de género más obviadas u olvidadas del siglo XIX. Principalmente, se establece la década de los sesenta (1860–1870) como década precursora al movimiento sufragista inglés de finales de siglo y se ofrece una visión temprana de las estrategias adoptadas por las mujeres victorianas para traspasar la constrictiva ideología de género de la época. Comenzamos cuestionándonos los motivos por los cuales las mujeres de los sesenta decidieron empezar su viaje o ‘journey’ hacia la emancipación, así haciendo referencia a la supuesta pasividad o ‘docilidad’ de las mujeres. Además, establecemos los vínculos existentes entre los mov…
Deconstructing Gendered and Colonial Violence in the Re-Imagined Nineteenth-Century: Domestic Traumas in Neo-Victorianism on Screen
2023
En esta tesis, examinamos el colapso del concepto idealizado de familia nuclear en las sociedades occidentales a través de la (mala) representación de los traumas de género y coloniales en el neovictorianismo audiovisual. Para ello, analizamos cuatro textos audiovisuales neovictorianos producidos en la última década: Crimson Peak (2015) de Guillermo del Toro, Penny Dreadful (2014-2016), Taboo (2017-presente) y Carnival Row (2019-presente) a través del marco teórico de los estudios de trauma. Nuestras hipótesis de partida son (1) estos textos audiovisuales neovictorianos aparentemente proporcionan una representación feminista de los traumas de género dentro de los confines de la familia nucl…
Hobsonʻs imperialism : a study in late-Victorian political thought
2009
In his PhD study Timo Särkkä explores J. A. Hobson’s (1858–1940) paradigm of imperialism, its content, intentions and, finally, its limitations. The study reveals that Hobson’s thesis of imperialism can be seen as paradigmatic of the 1890s radical-liberal understanding of imperialism.The author argues that when the Victorian periodical press (weeklies, reviews and magazines) is analysed in its original communicative context, it reveals a more appropriate environment in which to study Hobson’s political thought in terms of the history of ideas. Thus, quite conversely to the previous studies concerning Hobson, the principal sources used in this study are journal and periodical articles, revie…