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THURSDAY 25 AUGUST (7 PM) TO THURSDAY 1
SEPTEMBER (2 PM) 2011
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CONFERENCE CHAIR : Christine HUGUET
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CONFERENCE THEME :
The conference theme is designed to examine the reasons why the fiction
of Charles Dickens, this "flowing and mixed substance called Dickens",
to speak like Chesterton, became straightaway - and forever, it would
seem - a world landmark. We shall ask why the fictional techniques and
procedures which delighted Dickens’s contemporaries still inspire
today’s writers, after striking their twentieth-century predecessors’
imagination wonderfully.
The bicentenary of "The Inimitable"’s birth will be celebrated
worldwide next year; yet, some of the secret springs of his timeless,
mythical fiction still remain to be uncovered. As we know, modernity
foregrounds the power of words and the text’s capacity to create an
autonomous world - and in this respect, the Dickens corpus illustrates
supremely the creative magic of language. Such an observation, however,
fails to account fully for the perennial appeal of his fiction. It is
the aim of this international conference, which will gather many world
specialists, to address precisely this issue, notably by examining some
lesser known aspects of the great novelist’s work in the light of the
modernist stance.
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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE :
Thursday 25
August
Afternoon:
RECEPTION OF PARTICIPANTS
Evening:
Presentation of the Center, the conference and participants
Friday 26
August
Morning:
Dickens and France
Michael
HOLLINGTON: Charles Dickens Citoyen
Ignacio RAMOS
GAY: Dickens, France, and Comparative Proto-Ecocriticism (read
by Christine HUGUET and Nathalie VANFASSE)
Afternoon:
Reception Issues 1
Juliet JOHN:
Culture, Environment, Popularity
Dominic
RAINSFORD: Dickens and the Exploding World
Paul SCHLICKE:
The topicality of Sketches by Boz
After-Dinner
Talks:
Gillian
PIGGOTT: Dickens and Charles Chaplin
Saturday 27
August
Morning:
Dickensian Objects
David ELLISON:
"Timid Marks": Dickens and the ends of Privacy
Holly FURNEAUX:
Dickens, Sexuality and the Body, or Clock Loving; Master Humphrey's
Queer Objects of Desire
Afternoon:
FREE
(Mont-Saint-Michel)
Sunday 28
August
Morning:
Form and Narrative 1
(Beginnings, Middles, Endings)
David PARKER:
Dickens's Plots
John O. JORDAN:
Narrative Closure in David
Copperfield and Bleak House
Afternoon:
(Post)Modern Dickens
Francesca
ORESTANO: Two Londoners: Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf
Natalie
McKNIGHT: Postmodern Dickens: The Fragmented Self and
Alternative States of Consciousness
Adina
CIUGUREANU: Mania and Melancholia in Dickens’s Fiction (David Copperfield and Great Expectations)
After-Dinner
Talks:
Wendy PARKINS:
Mobility and Modernity: Reading Barnaby
Rudge
Monday 29
August
Morning:
Form and Narrative 2
Lawrence FRANK:
The Uses of Allusions in the Later Novels of Dickens
Zelma CATALAN:
"Quite Candid about All I Thought and Did", or Why Do We Trust
Dickens’s First-Person Narrators?
Michal P.
GINSBURG: Plotting (in) Barnaby
Rudge
Afernoon:
Oblique, Ambiguous
Dickens
Valerie
KENNEDY: Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral? Crossovers between
Organic and Inorganic Matter in Our
Mutual Friend
Matthias BAUER
& Angelika ZIRKER: Dickens and Ambiguity
After-Dinner
Talks:
Dinner at the Château de La Salle. Reading by Michael HOLLINGTON
Tuesday 30
August
Morning:
"Philothophy", Life
Philosophy, Sense of History
John BOWEN:
"The Philothophy of the Thubject"
David
PAROISSIEN: Dickens and the Voices of History
Andrew
BALLANTYNE: Dingley Dell: Pickwick
Papers’ lieu de mémoire
Afternoon:
FREE
(Coutances)
After-Dinner
Talks:
Nathalie
VANFASSE: The Lady at her
Toilette, Vanity and Death and The Maiden: a Pictorial
Reinterpretation of the Character of Miss Havisham
Wednesday 31
August
Morning:
Reception Issues 2
Murray
BAUMGARTEN: Dickens and the Jews / The Jews and Dickens
Vladimir
TRENDAFILOV: Dickens and Some Urban Legends in Twentieth-Century
Bulgaria
International Dickens
Jonathan
GROSSMAN: Passenger Networks
Afternoon:
FREE
(Bayeux)
After-Dinner
Talks:
Robert L.
PATTEN: International Dickens: Little
Dorrit on the "Grand Tour"
Thursday 1
September
Morning:
Ignacio RAMOS
GAY: Dickens, France, and Comparative Proto-Ecocriticism (read
by Christine HUGUET and Nathalie VANFASSE)
Afternoon:
DEPARTURES
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BIBLIOGRAPHY :
Malcolm Andrews, Charles Dickens and
His Performing Selves. Dickens and the Public Readings (Oxford:
Oxford UP, 2006).
Rosemarie Bodenheimer, Knowing
Dickens (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2007).
John Bowen and Robert L. Patten, eds., Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens
Studies (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
Sally Ledger, Dickens and the
Popular Radical Imagination (Cambridge: Cambride UP, 2007).
Marie-Aude Murail, Charles Dickens.
Ouvrier à douze ans, célèbre à vingt-quatre (Paris: Ecole des
Loisirs, 2005).
Sylvère Monod, Dickens romancier
(Paris: Hachette, 1953).
Jean-Pierre Ohl, Monsieur Dick ou le
dixième livre (Paris: Gallimard, 2004).
David Paroissien, ed., A Companion
to Charles Dickens (Oxford and New Malden, MA: Blackwell
Publishing, 2008).
Michael Slater, Charles Dickens
(New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2009).
Catherine Waters, Commodity Culture
in Dickens's Household Words. The Social Life of Goods
(Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2008).
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With the support of
the University Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3,
the University of Aix-en-Provence
and the Saint-Louis University of Madrid
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