A19 June Seminar Series around Chad LUCK (California State University at San Bernardino), invited professor at the LARCA.

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A19 is pleased to announce a seminar series around Chad LUCK.

Chad LUCK is Associate Professor at California State University at San Bernardino. His research focuses on 18th- and 19th-Century American Literature and Culture; Literature and Philosophy; Critical Theory; Phenomenology and Phenomenological Criticism; Law and Literature; Property Theory. He is the author of The Body of Property: Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession (Fordham UP, 2014).

Chad Luck has also published a number of essays, among which

  • “George Lippard and the Rise of the Urban Gothic.” A Companion to American Gothic, ed. Charles Crow. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
  • “Re-Walking the Purchase: Edgar Huntly, David Hume, and the Origins of Ownership.” Early American Literature 44.2 (2009): 271-306.
  • “The Epistemology of the Wonder-Closet: Melville, Moby-Dick, and the Marvelous.” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies1 (2007): 3-23.
  • “A Liberal Inheritance: Biology, Property, and the Limits of the Possessive Individual in Stoddard’s The Morgesons.” The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association1 (2007): 37-48.

  • Wednesday, June 13.    On Interest and the Interesting, 12pm-2pm (OdG 209, Paris Diderot) :

Chad LUCK (Associate Prof., California State University at San Bernardino): The Point of Interest: Economics and Aesthetics in Irving’s The Money-Diggers and Melville’s The Confidence-Man.

  • Friday June 15.  A19/LARCA. SYMPOSIUM, 10.30am-4pm (OdG 164, Paris Diderot)

10.30 am : Chad LUCK (Associate Prof., California State University at San Bernardino) : Sheppard Lee and the Utilitarian Social Body

Respondents : Antoine Traisnel (Assistant Professor, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor) & Stephen Sawyer (Prof., American University of Paris)

14pm-16pm : Giorgio MARIANI (Prof., Sapienza, Roma): Are Stephen Crane and Ambrose Bierce the Inventors  of the American “Anti-War” Story?       

Antoine TRAISNEL (Ann Arbor): The Stock Image: Eadweard Muybridge and the Animal in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility. 

Giorgio MARIANI is Professor of American Literature at the ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, where he coordinates the Doctoral Programin English-language literatures. His work has concentrated on nineteenth-century American writers (Emerson, Melville, Stephen Crane, and others); on contemporary American Indian literature; on literary theory; on the literary and cinematic representation of war. He has published, edited,and co-edited several volumes, including Spectacular Narratives. Representations of Class and War in the American 1890s (1992), Post-tribal Epics.The Native American Novel between Tradition and Modernity (1996) and Le parole e le armi (Words and Arms), a collection of essays on US discourses of war and violence from the Puritans to the first Gulf War. His essays and reviews have appeared in many journals, including American Literary History, Studies in American Fiction, RIAS, RSA Journal, Stephen Crane Studies. His latest book is titled Waging War on War. Peacefighting in American Literature (University of Illinois Press, 2015).

Antoine TRAISNEL is assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. He has published in the fields of American, French, and German literature and philosophy. He is the author of Hawthorne: Blasted Allegories (2015), coauthor of Donner le change: L’impensé animal (2016), with Thangam Ravindranathan, and translator of Sheppard Lee (2017). He is currently completing a book titled Life in Capture: Animal Pursuits and the New Logic of Life in Early America.

http://next.liberation.fr/livres/2017/09/29/sheppard-lee-ne-manque-pas-de-peaux_1599839

  • Wednesday, June 27. Literature and American (Literary) History. 12pm-2pm (OdG 209, Paris Diderot) :

Chad LUCK (Associate Prof., California State University at San Bernardino), about his book The Body of Property: Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession (Fordham UP, 2014), more specifically about the chapter “Anxieties of Ownership: Debt, Entitlement, and the Plantation Romance.”

Caroline LEVANDER (Carlson Professor in the Humanities, Professor of English, Rice University). De-Ciphering American Literature: 1945-1840-2016

 Caroline LEVANDER is Carlson Professor of Humanities and English at Rice University, and Vice President for Global and Digital Strategy. She is author of, amongst others, Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Culture and Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1998, paperback reprint 2009), Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W.E.B. Du Bois (Duke University Press, 2006), Where is American Literature? (Wiley, 2013) and co-editor of a number of edited collections such as Hemispheric American Studies (Rutgers UP, 2008) and Companion to American Literary Studies (Wiley, 2011), both of them with Robert Levine. Levander’s current book is an alternative cultural history of American political life, entitled Confounding Fathers: The Hidden History of the Men Who Threatened to Make America Great. She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Fulbright Program, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Huntington Library, the Brown Foundation, the Moody Foundation, and the Institute of Museum and Library Science’s National Leadership grant. Her latest book, with Matthew Pratt Guterl, Hotel Life: the Story of a Place Where Anything Can Happen (UNC Press, 2015) is about the everyday work of one of the world’s most fascinating and strange institutions.

Friday, May 4, 2018. ODG 163, Université Paris Diderot @ 2pm. American Transcendentalism Revisited

A19 invites

Joseph URBAS (Professor, University Bordeaux Montaigne), author of

Emerson’s Metaphysics : A Song of Laws and Causes (American Philosophy Series, Lexington Books, 2015).

Discussant : Thomas CONSTANTINESCO, LARCA, Paris Diderot.

In this book, Urbas tells the story of the making of a metaphysician and in so doing breaks with the postmodern, anti-metaphysical readings that have dominated Emerson scholarship since his philosophical rehabilitation began in late 1970s. Emerson’s Metaphysics proposes an account of Emerson’s metaphysical thought as it unfolds in his writings, as it informs his philosophy as a whole, and as it reflects the intellectual and religious culture in which he lived and moved and had his being.

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498524506/Emerson’s-Metaphysics-A-Song-of-Laws-and-Causes#`

and

Nicholas GUARDIANO, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, author of

Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting (American Philosophy Series, Lexington Books, 2016). Nicholas’s talk is entitled:

« Metaphysical Landscapes: The Transcendentalist Philosophy of the Hudson River School. »

Discussant : Joseph URBAS

Nicholas L. Guardiano is a philosopher and research specialist overseeing the American philosophy collection at the Morris Library archives.

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498524537/Aesthetic-Transcendentalism-in-Emerson-Peirce-and-Nineteenth-Century-American-Landscape-Painting

 

Friday, March 16, 2018. A19 invites Elizabeth Duquette (Gettysburg College), OdG 163, 2pm-4pm

bMS Am 188 (365), Houghton Library, Harvard University

Elizabeth Duquette’s talk is entitled

“Melville’s The Confidence-Man Between Genres.”

Elizabeth Duquette received her B.A. in Philosophy from Dartmouth College and her Ph.D. in American Literature from New York University.  Her first book–Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America (Rutgers UP, 2010)--explored the idea of loyalty in the postbellum United States. With Gettysburg graduate Cheryl Tevlin, she co-edited Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: Selected Tales, Essays, and Poems (U of Nebraska P, 2014). Her current book project, Napoleonic Codes: Tyranny and Ubiquity in the Nineteenth-Century United States, offers an alternative history of the American political imagination in the nineteenth century, recovering the close, but often ignored, relationship between democracy and tyranny.

Amongst Duquette’s most recent  articles are “The Man of the World,” American Literary History 27:4 (2015), 635-664; “The Pleasures of Occasional Vitriol,” J19 3:2 (2015), 220-228; “The Office of The Dead Letter,” Arizona Quarterly 69:4 (2013), 25-58; “Making an Example: American Literature as Philosophy,” The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature, ed. Russ Castronovo (Oxford UP, 2012), 343-357; and Pierre‘s Nominal Conversions,” Melville and Aesthetics, eds. Samuel Otter and Geoff Sanborn (Palgrave, 2011), 117-135.

With Stacey Margolis, Elizabeth Duquette edits J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.

Please note that Elizabeth Duquette will also give a talk on Thursday, March 15, 12-14, OdG 830:  “Afterlives of American Racism” https://FLT.hypotheses.org/

Vendredi 16 février, 2018–13h30

La prochaine séance de A19 aura lieu le 26 janvier (salle OdG 163, Université Paris Diderot) exceptionnellement à 13h30. Nous y entendrons:

François BRUNET, LARCA/Paris-Diderot, à propos de son livre : La Photographie, histoire et contre-histoire (PUF, 2017)

https://www.puf.com/content/La_photographie_histoire_et_contre-histoire

Ronan LUDOT-VLASAK, CECILLE/Lille 3, à propos de son livre : Essais sur Melville et l’Antiquité classique – ‘Etranger en son lieu’” (Honoré Champion, 2018), tout juste paru.

https://www.honorechampion.com/fr/champion/10646-book-08534594-9782745345943.html

Il sera donc question d’archives, de statues, et de photographie, entre autres choses!

Veuillez noter que cette séance a été exceptionnellement avancée à 13h30 pour permettre à ceux et celles qui le souhaitent d’aller écouter Thomas Constantinesco au séminaire Arte à Paris Sorbonne.

http://www.vale.paris-sorbonne.fr/FR/Page_conference.php?P1=403

Vendredi 26 janvier 2018 14h

A19 vous souhaite une excellente année 2018!

La prochaine séance de A19 aura lieu le 26 janvier (salle OdG 163, Université Paris Diderot). Nous y entendrons

Juliette DOROTTE, Le vertige de l’écriture : les premiers romans américains. Le cas de Royall Tyler, The Algerine Captive, 1797.

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/N24844.0001.001?view=toc

et, à l’occasion de la parution de son livre aux Presses de l’ENS-Lyon,

Michael ROY, Université Paris Nanterre, Textes fugitifs : le récit d’esclave au prisme de l’histoire du livre.

Le cas du récit de Charles Ball, Slavery in the United States, 1837.

http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/ballslavery/menu.html

Le détail des prochaines séances sera posté sur le site. En voici déjà un aperçu:

 

  • Vendredi 16 février, salle 163, 13h30

Ronan LUDOT-VLASAK, Lille 3, à propos de son livre : Essais sur Melville et l’Antiquité classique – ‘Etranger en son lieu’” (Honoré Champion, 2018)

François BRUNET, LARCA/Paris-Diderot, à propos de son livre : La Photographie, histoire et contre-histoire (PUF, 2017)

 

  • Vendredi 16 mars, salle 163 : séance autour d’Elizabeth DUQUETTE, Gettysburg College, co-rédactrice de J19: The Journal for Nineteenth-Century Americanists.

 

  • Vendredi 4 mai, salle 163 : Paysages transcendantalistes: peinture et métaphysique

Joseph URBAS, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, à propos de son livre : Emerson’s Metaphysics: A Song of Laws and Causes (Lexington Books, 2016).

Nicholas GUARDIANO, Southern Illinois University : “Metaphysical Landscapes: The Transcendentalist Philosophy of the Hudson River School.”

 

  • Vendredi 15 juin, salle 164 : séance autour de Chad LUCK, California State University, San Bernardino (invité du LARCA/ Paris-Diderot)

 

 

A19 est aussi partenaire de 3 séminaires ou journées d’études ce semestre :

 

  • Vendredi 2 février (Paris Diderot) (avec EDLM et FLT) (12h-14h) : Récits d’esclaves-Nouvelles approches. Séminaire de travail avec la participation de Thomas Constantinesco, Sandrine Ferré-Bode et Anne-Laure Tissut, Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Claire Parfait. voir site:  https://flt.hypotheses.org/

 

  • Vendredi 9 et samedi 10 février (ENS-Ulm) : Journées d’étude Walt Whitman. Invité A19 : Peter RILEY, University of Exeter : “‘Wet Paper Between Us’”: Whitman, Intimacy, and the Transformations of Labor”
  • Whitman-Programme Symposium Whitman-Ulm

 

  • Jeudi 28 juin (Paris Diderot) (avec University of East Anglia, the Arts And Humanities Research Council, and CHASE, consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South East England) : Recovering May Alcott Nieriker’s Life and Work: A One-Day Conference.

 

Friday, December 15, “Translating the American 19th Century, and Beyond”

The A19 workshop at Université Paris-Didérot-LARCA-UMR 8225 invites Pauline Choay-Lescar and Antoine Cazé to discuss their recent translations.

Pauline Choay-Lescar (trad.),  Walt Whitman, Ecrits de jeunesse, Actes Sud, 2015.

 

Antoine Cazé (trad.), Susan Howe, Mon Emily Dickinson, Ypsilon, 2017.

Antoine Cazé will also discuss his forthcoming translation into French of Howe’s The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the American Wilderness in American Literary History (1993).

The seminar will take place on Friday, November 15, at 2.30pm (Room 164, bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, Université Paris Diderot, 8, Place Paul Ricoeur, 75013 Paris).

 

Vendredi 15 décembre, “Traduire le XIXe siècle américain, et au-delà”, 14h30, ODG 164

La deuxième séance de l’atelier A19 (LARCA-UMR 8225) aura lieu le vendredi 15 décembre à l’université Paris Diderot, en salle 164, bâtiment Olympe de Gouges.

C’est une séance autour de la traduction que nous vous proposons autour de deux interventions :

Pauline Choay-Lescar viendra nous parler de sa traduction de

Walt Whitman, Ecrits de jeunesse, Actes Sud, 2015.

 

 

Antoine Cazé présentera sa traduction de

Susan Howe, Mon Emily Dickinson, Ypsilon, 2017,

ainsi que de sa traduction en cours de The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the American Wilderness in American Literary History.

 

La séance sera suivie du traditionnel pot.

Friday, November 24, 2017 –The Global Nineteenth-Century

The A19 workshop at Université Paris-Didérot-LARCA-UMR 8225 invites Dr. Mark STOREY, assistant professor at the University of Warwick, who will give a talk entitled :

“Local Color, World-System; or, American Realism at the Periphery.”

Dr. Storey teaches on the English and Comparative Literary Studies programmes.
His first book, Rural Fictions, Urban Realities: A Geography of Gilded Age American Literature (OUP, 2013), examined the effects of late nineteenth-century modernisation and urbanisation on the literary representation of rural America, and argued for a reconceptualisation of ‘American regionalism’.
His current research focuses on two areas: U.S. imperialism, and time studies. His project attempts to bring U.S. imperialism and time studies together by looking at the concept of ‘imperial time’ and how it relates to literary culture in America from the late 18th century to the present. Through this work, Dr. Storey is interested in classical reception in America, the philosophical and political uses of historical analogy, the place of the historical novel in American literary history, travel writing about the Mediterranean, and the racial/religious aspects of U.S. imperialism.
https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/people/markstorey/

We will also discuss the turn to the global in ninetenth-century studies, especially among historians, with the recent publication of Histoire du monde au XIXe siècle, edited by Pierre Singaravélou et Sylvain Venayre (Fayard, 2017) in the wake of The Transformation of the World. A Global History of the Nineteenth by Jürgen Osterhammel (trad. Patrick Camiller), Princeton UP, 2014. What do we have to say about this globalization of nineteenth-century studies as literary scholars?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dbnw1pfqhm9hel4/Pour%20une%20histoire%20du%20monde%20au%20XIXe%20si%C3%A8cle-Introduction.pdf?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jxp8ghz9udxa796/The%20Transformation%20of%20the%20World-Introduction.pdf?dl=0

The seminar will take place on Friday, November 24, at 2pm (room 009, bâtiment Sophie Germain)

Next seminar : Friday, December 15. Guest speakers : Pauline Choay-Lescar, translator of Whitman’s early writings ; Antoine Cazé (Université Paris Diderot), translator of Susan Howe’s My Emily Dickinson (Ypsilon, 2017) and The Birthmark (forthcoming).

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La prochaine séance de l’atelier A19 (LARCA-UMR 8225) aura lieu le vendredi 24 novembre à Paris Diderot (salle 009, bâtiment Sophie Germain) autour de la venue de Mark Storey, assistant professor à l’université de Warwick (UK), auteur de Rural Fictions, Urban Realities: A Geography of Gilded Age American Literature (OUP, 2013), qui fera une communication intitulée:

“Local Color, World-System; or, American Realism at the Periphery.”

https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/engagement

Nous discuterons également à cette occasion d’une certaine actualité du dix-neuvième siècle “global” autour de la parution, sous la direction de Pierre Singaravélou et Sylvain Venayre, d’Histoire du monde au XIXe siècle (Fayard, 2017) dans le sillage de The Transformation of the World. A Global History of the Nineteenth Century de Jürgen Osterhammel (trad. Patrick Camiller), Princeton UP, 2014. Quel est l’impact de ce tournant global pour les études littéraires?

PJ: l’introduction de Histoire du monde au XIXe siècle et The Transformation of the World. A Global History of the Nineteenth Century.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dbnw1pfqhm9hel4/Pour%20une%20histoire%20du%20monde%20au%20XIXe%20si%C3%A8cle-Introduction.pdf?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jxp8ghz9udxa796/The%20Transformation%20of%20the%20World-Introduction.pdf?dl=0

La séance sera suivie du traditionnel pot.

Veuillez noter dès à présent que le prochain atelier aura lieu le vendredi 15 décembre. Ce sera une séance consacrée à la traduction, avec la participation de Pauline Choay-Lescar, traductrice des écrits de jeunesse de Walt Whitman (Actes Sud, 2015) et d’Antoine Cazé, traducteur de Susan Howe (My Emily Dickison, Ypsilon, 2017, et The Birthmark, en préparation).