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DICKENS, MODERNISM, MODERNITY

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THURSDAY 25 AUGUST (7 PM) TO THURSDAY 1 SEPTEMBER (2 PM) 2011

CONFERENCE CHAIR : Christine HUGUET

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.

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

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).

With the support of
the University Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3,
the University of Aix-en-Provence
and the Saint-Louis University of Madrid