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Videos by Francesca Saggini
"The Burney Society (North America) Virtual Zoom Conference: Re-reading, Re-viewing, and Re-asses... more "The Burney Society (North America) Virtual Zoom Conference: Re-reading, Re-viewing, and Re-assessing the Burneys”
Date: July 5-7, 2021
Francesca Saggini (Edinburgh) will present a talk, “‘Tell all the truth but tell it slant’: Reading Frances Burney Against the Grain,” our Founder Paula Stepankowsky will review the history and accomplishments of our Society, and thirteen Burney scholars, both established and emerging, will share new insights on panels titled “Re-assessing Frances Burney and Burney Criticism,” “Other Burneys,” “Charles Burney and “Charles Burney and Music,” and “Re-viewing Burneys through New Lenses.”
Registration for Burney Society UK Members: Conference registration $10 via PayPal.
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Books by Francesca Saggini
Quando il chiarore si attenua e si attraversa una soglia, eccoci entrare nella dimensione del Fan... more Quando il chiarore si attenua e si attraversa una soglia, eccoci entrare nella dimensione del Fantastico, dove la luce si sposa all’ombra e il mondo ci appare ancora simile, eppure infinitamente diverso. Secolo fecondo come non altri nell’invenzione di questi ‘contro-mondi’, vicini e lontani al tempo stesso, l’Ottocento fantastico in lingua inglese viene esplorato in questo saggio da Francesca Saggini, che affianca all’approccio fenomenologico (la traduzione di dieci racconti esemplari scelti tra Stati Uniti, Inghilterra, Scozia e Galles) un’interpretazione puntuale e una ricca serie di rimandi che offrono nuovi e inaspettati approcci al genere. Seguendo i sentieri del Fantastico ottocentesco penetriamo così il magmatico vortice editoriale vittoriano, fatto di leggende popolari, occultismo, misteri, esoterismi, spiriti inquieti e creature soprannaturali, che gettano ombra –loro, da sempre relegati negli angoli più scuri del canone letterario— sui cosiddetti eminenti vittoriani. Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens entrano sì in scena nella ricostruzione di Francesca Saggini, ma solo come comparse su di un vasto palcoscenico editoriale alternativo e popolarissimo, i cui veri protagonisti sono fantasmi, licantropi, vampiri, doppi persecutori, amanti demoniaci, mummie assassine, ibridi umani orrifici. Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe – tutti i grandi nomi del Fantastico ottocentesco sono i comprimari di questa ricchissima narrazione fantastica che (rin)traccia una linea di continuità tra i capi opposti di un Ottocento mercuriale e saturnino, dalla cultura orale delle ballate folkloriche alle magie dei primi film muti ispirati all’‘oltre-sensibile’. Seduti nella comodità del salotto di casa, circondati dagli oggetti del noto, adesso diventati estranei inquietanti, ripercorriamo fin dalle sue origini romantiche un secolo in cui si era ancora certi dell’esistenza delle fate e si credeva fermamente che, se solo si fosse spenta per un momento la lampadina accecante di Thomas Edison, il mondo razionale si sarebbe di nuovo inchinato all’ineffabilità seducente di Tinker Bell.
Sole Nero. Il Gotico meridiano dell'Ottocento italiano. Uno sguardo dall'Inghilterra, 2020
Esiste un Gotico autoctono nell'Italia del diciannovesimo secolo, una rielaborazione locale di fo... more Esiste un Gotico autoctono nell'Italia del diciannovesimo secolo, una rielaborazione locale di forme e modelli inglesi - un Gotico "sotto il sole", per così dire? Nel suo breve saggio Francesca Saggini affronta questo argomento molto dibattuto facendo valere la presenza di chiari motivi e strutture gotici in diversi romanzi italiani, da I promessi sposi di Alessandro Manzoni (1827), a Le avventure di Pinocchio (1883) di Carlo Lorenzini (Collodi). Il percorso del Gotico italiano si chiude con i discorsi antirazionalisti e antiscientifici fioriti alla fine del secolo e modalità ermeneutiche come lo spiritismo, il mesmerismo e l'occultismo, sempre più di moda nella stampa popolare. Il saggio include una disamina del tutto inedita sui vampiri italiani dell’Ottocento, che non smisero mai di affiorare anche all’ombra del nostro sole nero.
In this ground-breaking study Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteenth-centu... more In this ground-breaking study Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteenth-century novel and the theatre, arguing that the implicit theatricality of the Gothic novel made it an obvious source from which dramatists could take ideas. Similarly, she suggests that elements of the theatre – costume, lighting, music and special effects – provided inspiration to novelists.
Free intro and index available for perusal here http://www.pickeringchatto.com/titles/1531-9781848934146-gothic-novel-and-the-stage
Shortlisted for the ESSE Book Awards 2016, Literatures in the English Languages, Category A.
Honourable Mention at the ESSE Book Awards 2016, Literatures in the English Languages, Category A.
In Backstage in the Novel, Francesca Saggini traces the unique interplay between fiction and thea... more In Backstage in the Novel, Francesca Saggini traces the unique interplay between fiction and theater in the eighteenth century through an examination of the work of the English novelist, diarist, and playwright Frances Burney. Moving beyond the basic identification of affinities between the genres, Saggini establishes a literary-cultural context for Burney's work, considering the relation between drama, a long-standing tradition, and the still-emergent form of the novel.
Through close semiotic analysis, intertextual comparison, and cultural contextualization, Saggini highlights the extensive metatextual discourse in Burney's novels, allowing the theater within the novels to surface. Saggini’s comparative analysis addresses, among other elements, textual structures, plots, characters, narrative discourse, and reading practices. The author explores the theatrical and spectacular elements that made the eighteenth-century novel a hybrid genre infused with dramatic conventions. She analyzes such conventions in light of contemporary theories of reception and of the role of the reader that underpinned eighteenth-century cultural consumption. In doing so, Saggini contextualizes the typical reader-spectator of Burney’s day, one who kept abreast of the latest publications and was able to move effortlessly between "high" (sentimental, dramatic) and "low" (grotesque, comedic) cultural forms that intersected on the stage.
Backstage in the Novel aims to restore to Burney's entire literary corpus the dimensionality that characterized it originally. It is a vivid, close-up view of a writer who operated in a society saturated by theater and spectacle and who rendered that dramatic text into narrative. More than a study of Burney or an overview of eighteenth-century literature and theater, this book gives immediacy to an understanding of the broad forces informing, and channeled through, Burney's life and work.
Downloadable at https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813932644
![Research paper thumbnail of La messinscena dell’identità. Teatro e teatralità nel romanzo inglese del Settecento. [Staging Identity. Theatre and Theatricality in the eighteenth-century English novel]. Viterbo: Settecittà, 2004, pp. 323. ISBN: 978-8886091701.](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/49286412/thumbnails/1.jpg)
](Interviews by Francesca Saggini
Interview on two of my 2020 books. In Italian.
Critical Editions by Francesca Saggini
Women's Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East. Part I: The texts collected here sho... more Women's Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East. Part I: The texts collected here show the variety of ways in which women writers shaped early nineteenth-century British attitudes to North Africa and the Middle East, and towards Muslim culture more generally. Tully’s lively account offers a unique and intimate close-up of Libyan social life and customs, whilst Wilson introduced the Egyptian travelogue to a younger generation and Hofland skillfully provided a unified narrative to the entire eastern Ottoman empire. Taken together, they shed new light on British Orientalist discourse and the imperial rhetoric which shaped the Victorian high colonial era which followed.
Edited collections by Francesca Saggini
Frances Burney and the Arts, 2022
This book, collection of essays by leading scholars in Burney studies, provides an innovative, in... more This book, collection of essays by leading scholars in Burney studies, provides an innovative, interdisciplinary critical consideration of the relationship of one of the major authors of the long English Romantic period with the arts. The encounter was not devoid of tensions and indeed often required a degree of wrangling on Burney’s part. This was a revealing and at times contentious dialogue, allowing us to reconstruct in an original and highly focused way the feminine negotiation with such key concepts of the late Enlightenment and Romanticism as virtue, reputation, creativity, originality, artistic expression, and self-construction. While there is now a flourishing body of work on Frances Burney and, more broadly, Romantic women authors, this book concentrates for the first time on the rich artistic and material context that surrounded, supported, and shaped Frances Burney’s oeuvre.
Pedagogia e didattica della letteratura inglese. Il progetto Frankenreads all’Università degli Studi della Tuscia, 2020
Pedagogia e didattica della letteratura inglese Viterbo, Settecittà, 2020. E-book ATTACHM... more Pedagogia e didattica della letteratura inglese
Viterbo, Settecittà, 2020.
E-book
ATTACHMENTS contengono : Francesca Saggini, "Presentazione
(Ri)leggere un classico in classe"
Frankenstein di Mary Shelley, testo conosciutissimo nelle sue rielaborazioni cinematografiche, meno nella versione originale—da copertina a copertina—lettura richiesta o fortemente consigliata in molte scuole superiori italiane. Lo conosciamo tutti e tutti lo insegniamo. E lo insegniamo come si fa di solito in classe: spiegazioni, analisi del testo, compiti scritti, tesine, ricerca su internet. Applichiamo adesso al conforto del noto il Verfremdungseffekt concesso invece dall’ignoto. E se… . Prendiamo Frankenstein, straniamolo e decostruiamo la conoscenza che ne abbiamo. Leggiamolo ad alta voce in pubblico. Ne avremo un’altra percezione? Ne avranno un’altra percezione gli studenti? Lo sentiranno maggiormente loro, meno di studio e più di piacere? Tramutati in custodi di un piccolo pezzo del romanzo, saranno in grado—saranno soprattutto interessati—a diventarne anche i testimoni? E’ di questo esperimento didattico che il nostro libro si occupa, ricostruendo le fasi di un articolato progetto di ricerca-azione promosso dalla Cattedra di Letteratura Inglese dell’Università degli Studi della Tuscia e da cinque Licei di Viterbo.
Le nostre riflessioni possono essere usate come guida per reinventare la didattica anche di altri testi di lettura raccomandati nelle scuole. Pensiamo a come risulterebbe diverso leggere ad alta voce A Christmas Carol di Charles Dickens, un romanzo ricchissimo di effetti sonori, oppure gli scambi vivaci tra Elizabeth e Darcy in Pride and Prejudice di Jane Austen. Come succede quando una commedia o una tragedia lasciano la pagina e giungono sulla scena, la parola del romanzo letto ad alta voce in pubblico diventa una parola tridimensionale, una parola che si transustanzia, si libra dalla pagina e fa il suo ingresso non solo nella classe, ma in noi. È con questo invito a riappropriarci del testo letterario—poesia, racconto, romanzo—attraverso la sua consumazione/riproduzione orale che inizia dunque il nostro viaggio nel “Frankenread”.
Transmedia Creatures: Frankenstein’s Afterlives shows how Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Mo... more Transmedia Creatures: Frankenstein’s Afterlives shows how Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus disturbs and transcends boundaries, be they political, ethical, theological, aesthetic, and not least of media, ensuring its vibrant presence in contemporary popular culture. The authors engage with concepts, value systems and aesthetic-moral categories—among them the family, horror, monstrosity, diversity, education, risk, technology, the body—from a variety of contemporary approaches and highly original perspectives, in such a way as to yield new connections. As evidenced by this exciting collection, Frankenstein is paradoxically enriched by the diversity of preconceptions/misreadings/overreadings that attend it, and that reveal the extraordinarily complex interweaving of perceptions and responses it continues to generate across different genres and in different eras.
SUBJECTS and AREAS
Romantic literature and culture; humanities; arts; adaptation studies; media studies; film and TV studies; history of music; gender studies; liberal arts; cultural studies; comparative literature; literature and science; sociology.
Nato con una duplice finalità, ermeneutica e didattica, "L’investigatore allo specchio: un approc... more Nato con una duplice finalità, ermeneutica e didattica, "L’investigatore allo specchio: un approccio transdisciplinare al poliziesco" offre una riflessione seria e al contempo appassionata sulla letteratura poliziesca e criminale. Sintetizzando il rigore del discorso scientifico con la curiosità (e la connivenza) tipica del lettore sedotto, studiosi provenienti da varie aree disciplinari analizzano aspetti complementari di questo genere dalle molteplici articolazioni interne, spostandosi dal noir cinematografico al corpo nella letteratura sensazionale e nell'antropologia criminale dell'Ottocento, dalle performances investigative dei murder mystery weekends al paesaggio sonoro e alla semiotica della detection. Il volume traccia un originale percorso multidisciplinare e intermediale attraverso approcci critici, sottogeneri e rimediazioni dell’indagine poliziesca, muovendosi dai crimini ambientati in epoca classica o medievale fino alle inchieste medico-legali popolarizzate dal piccolo schermo, sul filo di una riflessione intorno alla scrittura gialla come strumento di critica e lettura della società.
Publisher:
Bononia University Press
Contributors:
Francesca Saggini, Mirella Billi, Giorgio Cremonini, Maurizio Ascari, Sonia Maria Melchiorre, Alessandra Calanchi, Raffaella Petrilli, Elisabetta Zurru, Cristina Benicchi, Grazia Sommariva, Matteo Sanfilippo, Nicoletta Vallorani
Edited Journal Issues by Francesca Saggini
Prizes by Francesca Saggini
My book, The Gothic Novel and the Stage (2015), has been shortlisted for Allan Lloyd Smith Memori... more My book, The Gothic Novel and the Stage (2015), has been shortlisted for Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize 2017 awarded by the International Gothic Association for a standout monograph published on the Gothic over the last two years (2015-2016).
"The International Gothic Association unites teachers, scholars, students, artists, writers and performers from around the world who are interested in any aspect of gothic culture: fiction, drama, poetry, art, film, music, architecture, popular culture and technology. It promotes the study and dissemination of information on gothic culture from the mid eighteenth century to the contemporary moment. The only association of its kind, the IGA is the academic centre for people interested in an analysis of the gothic." (Source: http://www.internationalgothic.group.shef.ac.uk/?page_id=55 )
Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize 2007. "In 2011, as a memorial to its founding President Dr Allan Lloyd Smith (1945-2010), the International Gothic Association established a prize to be awarded for a scholarly publication considered to have advanced the field of Gothic studies significantly. For the 2017 incarnation of the award we are delighted to announce that there will be a £100 prize for a standout monograph published on the Gothic over the last two years. For the current round of nominations, monographs published over the last 24 months (i.e., from January 1st 2015 to December 31st 2016) are eligible." (Source: http://www.internationalgothic.group.shef.ac.uk/?p=283)
"The Burney Society (North America) Virtual Zoom Conference: Re-reading, Re-viewing, and Re-asses... more "The Burney Society (North America) Virtual Zoom Conference: Re-reading, Re-viewing, and Re-assessing the Burneys”
Date: July 5-7, 2021
Francesca Saggini (Edinburgh) will present a talk, “‘Tell all the truth but tell it slant’: Reading Frances Burney Against the Grain,” our Founder Paula Stepankowsky will review the history and accomplishments of our Society, and thirteen Burney scholars, both established and emerging, will share new insights on panels titled “Re-assessing Frances Burney and Burney Criticism,” “Other Burneys,” “Charles Burney and “Charles Burney and Music,” and “Re-viewing Burneys through New Lenses.”
Registration for Burney Society UK Members: Conference registration $10 via PayPal.
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Quando il chiarore si attenua e si attraversa una soglia, eccoci entrare nella dimensione del Fan... more Quando il chiarore si attenua e si attraversa una soglia, eccoci entrare nella dimensione del Fantastico, dove la luce si sposa all’ombra e il mondo ci appare ancora simile, eppure infinitamente diverso. Secolo fecondo come non altri nell’invenzione di questi ‘contro-mondi’, vicini e lontani al tempo stesso, l’Ottocento fantastico in lingua inglese viene esplorato in questo saggio da Francesca Saggini, che affianca all’approccio fenomenologico (la traduzione di dieci racconti esemplari scelti tra Stati Uniti, Inghilterra, Scozia e Galles) un’interpretazione puntuale e una ricca serie di rimandi che offrono nuovi e inaspettati approcci al genere. Seguendo i sentieri del Fantastico ottocentesco penetriamo così il magmatico vortice editoriale vittoriano, fatto di leggende popolari, occultismo, misteri, esoterismi, spiriti inquieti e creature soprannaturali, che gettano ombra –loro, da sempre relegati negli angoli più scuri del canone letterario— sui cosiddetti eminenti vittoriani. Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens entrano sì in scena nella ricostruzione di Francesca Saggini, ma solo come comparse su di un vasto palcoscenico editoriale alternativo e popolarissimo, i cui veri protagonisti sono fantasmi, licantropi, vampiri, doppi persecutori, amanti demoniaci, mummie assassine, ibridi umani orrifici. Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe – tutti i grandi nomi del Fantastico ottocentesco sono i comprimari di questa ricchissima narrazione fantastica che (rin)traccia una linea di continuità tra i capi opposti di un Ottocento mercuriale e saturnino, dalla cultura orale delle ballate folkloriche alle magie dei primi film muti ispirati all’‘oltre-sensibile’. Seduti nella comodità del salotto di casa, circondati dagli oggetti del noto, adesso diventati estranei inquietanti, ripercorriamo fin dalle sue origini romantiche un secolo in cui si era ancora certi dell’esistenza delle fate e si credeva fermamente che, se solo si fosse spenta per un momento la lampadina accecante di Thomas Edison, il mondo razionale si sarebbe di nuovo inchinato all’ineffabilità seducente di Tinker Bell.
Sole Nero. Il Gotico meridiano dell'Ottocento italiano. Uno sguardo dall'Inghilterra, 2020
Esiste un Gotico autoctono nell'Italia del diciannovesimo secolo, una rielaborazione locale di fo... more Esiste un Gotico autoctono nell'Italia del diciannovesimo secolo, una rielaborazione locale di forme e modelli inglesi - un Gotico "sotto il sole", per così dire? Nel suo breve saggio Francesca Saggini affronta questo argomento molto dibattuto facendo valere la presenza di chiari motivi e strutture gotici in diversi romanzi italiani, da I promessi sposi di Alessandro Manzoni (1827), a Le avventure di Pinocchio (1883) di Carlo Lorenzini (Collodi). Il percorso del Gotico italiano si chiude con i discorsi antirazionalisti e antiscientifici fioriti alla fine del secolo e modalità ermeneutiche come lo spiritismo, il mesmerismo e l'occultismo, sempre più di moda nella stampa popolare. Il saggio include una disamina del tutto inedita sui vampiri italiani dell’Ottocento, che non smisero mai di affiorare anche all’ombra del nostro sole nero.
In this ground-breaking study Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteenth-centu... more In this ground-breaking study Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteenth-century novel and the theatre, arguing that the implicit theatricality of the Gothic novel made it an obvious source from which dramatists could take ideas. Similarly, she suggests that elements of the theatre – costume, lighting, music and special effects – provided inspiration to novelists.
Free intro and index available for perusal here http://www.pickeringchatto.com/titles/1531-9781848934146-gothic-novel-and-the-stage
Shortlisted for the ESSE Book Awards 2016, Literatures in the English Languages, Category A.
Honourable Mention at the ESSE Book Awards 2016, Literatures in the English Languages, Category A.
In Backstage in the Novel, Francesca Saggini traces the unique interplay between fiction and thea... more In Backstage in the Novel, Francesca Saggini traces the unique interplay between fiction and theater in the eighteenth century through an examination of the work of the English novelist, diarist, and playwright Frances Burney. Moving beyond the basic identification of affinities between the genres, Saggini establishes a literary-cultural context for Burney's work, considering the relation between drama, a long-standing tradition, and the still-emergent form of the novel.
Through close semiotic analysis, intertextual comparison, and cultural contextualization, Saggini highlights the extensive metatextual discourse in Burney's novels, allowing the theater within the novels to surface. Saggini’s comparative analysis addresses, among other elements, textual structures, plots, characters, narrative discourse, and reading practices. The author explores the theatrical and spectacular elements that made the eighteenth-century novel a hybrid genre infused with dramatic conventions. She analyzes such conventions in light of contemporary theories of reception and of the role of the reader that underpinned eighteenth-century cultural consumption. In doing so, Saggini contextualizes the typical reader-spectator of Burney’s day, one who kept abreast of the latest publications and was able to move effortlessly between "high" (sentimental, dramatic) and "low" (grotesque, comedic) cultural forms that intersected on the stage.
Backstage in the Novel aims to restore to Burney's entire literary corpus the dimensionality that characterized it originally. It is a vivid, close-up view of a writer who operated in a society saturated by theater and spectacle and who rendered that dramatic text into narrative. More than a study of Burney or an overview of eighteenth-century literature and theater, this book gives immediacy to an understanding of the broad forces informing, and channeled through, Burney's life and work.
Downloadable at https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813932644
Interview on two of my 2020 books. In Italian.
Women's Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East. Part I: The texts collected here sho... more Women's Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East. Part I: The texts collected here show the variety of ways in which women writers shaped early nineteenth-century British attitudes to North Africa and the Middle East, and towards Muslim culture more generally. Tully’s lively account offers a unique and intimate close-up of Libyan social life and customs, whilst Wilson introduced the Egyptian travelogue to a younger generation and Hofland skillfully provided a unified narrative to the entire eastern Ottoman empire. Taken together, they shed new light on British Orientalist discourse and the imperial rhetoric which shaped the Victorian high colonial era which followed.
Frances Burney and the Arts, 2022
This book, collection of essays by leading scholars in Burney studies, provides an innovative, in... more This book, collection of essays by leading scholars in Burney studies, provides an innovative, interdisciplinary critical consideration of the relationship of one of the major authors of the long English Romantic period with the arts. The encounter was not devoid of tensions and indeed often required a degree of wrangling on Burney’s part. This was a revealing and at times contentious dialogue, allowing us to reconstruct in an original and highly focused way the feminine negotiation with such key concepts of the late Enlightenment and Romanticism as virtue, reputation, creativity, originality, artistic expression, and self-construction. While there is now a flourishing body of work on Frances Burney and, more broadly, Romantic women authors, this book concentrates for the first time on the rich artistic and material context that surrounded, supported, and shaped Frances Burney’s oeuvre.
Pedagogia e didattica della letteratura inglese. Il progetto Frankenreads all’Università degli Studi della Tuscia, 2020
Pedagogia e didattica della letteratura inglese Viterbo, Settecittà, 2020. E-book ATTACHM... more Pedagogia e didattica della letteratura inglese
Viterbo, Settecittà, 2020.
E-book
ATTACHMENTS contengono : Francesca Saggini, "Presentazione
(Ri)leggere un classico in classe"
Frankenstein di Mary Shelley, testo conosciutissimo nelle sue rielaborazioni cinematografiche, meno nella versione originale—da copertina a copertina—lettura richiesta o fortemente consigliata in molte scuole superiori italiane. Lo conosciamo tutti e tutti lo insegniamo. E lo insegniamo come si fa di solito in classe: spiegazioni, analisi del testo, compiti scritti, tesine, ricerca su internet. Applichiamo adesso al conforto del noto il Verfremdungseffekt concesso invece dall’ignoto. E se… . Prendiamo Frankenstein, straniamolo e decostruiamo la conoscenza che ne abbiamo. Leggiamolo ad alta voce in pubblico. Ne avremo un’altra percezione? Ne avranno un’altra percezione gli studenti? Lo sentiranno maggiormente loro, meno di studio e più di piacere? Tramutati in custodi di un piccolo pezzo del romanzo, saranno in grado—saranno soprattutto interessati—a diventarne anche i testimoni? E’ di questo esperimento didattico che il nostro libro si occupa, ricostruendo le fasi di un articolato progetto di ricerca-azione promosso dalla Cattedra di Letteratura Inglese dell’Università degli Studi della Tuscia e da cinque Licei di Viterbo.
Le nostre riflessioni possono essere usate come guida per reinventare la didattica anche di altri testi di lettura raccomandati nelle scuole. Pensiamo a come risulterebbe diverso leggere ad alta voce A Christmas Carol di Charles Dickens, un romanzo ricchissimo di effetti sonori, oppure gli scambi vivaci tra Elizabeth e Darcy in Pride and Prejudice di Jane Austen. Come succede quando una commedia o una tragedia lasciano la pagina e giungono sulla scena, la parola del romanzo letto ad alta voce in pubblico diventa una parola tridimensionale, una parola che si transustanzia, si libra dalla pagina e fa il suo ingresso non solo nella classe, ma in noi. È con questo invito a riappropriarci del testo letterario—poesia, racconto, romanzo—attraverso la sua consumazione/riproduzione orale che inizia dunque il nostro viaggio nel “Frankenread”.
Transmedia Creatures: Frankenstein’s Afterlives shows how Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Mo... more Transmedia Creatures: Frankenstein’s Afterlives shows how Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus disturbs and transcends boundaries, be they political, ethical, theological, aesthetic, and not least of media, ensuring its vibrant presence in contemporary popular culture. The authors engage with concepts, value systems and aesthetic-moral categories—among them the family, horror, monstrosity, diversity, education, risk, technology, the body—from a variety of contemporary approaches and highly original perspectives, in such a way as to yield new connections. As evidenced by this exciting collection, Frankenstein is paradoxically enriched by the diversity of preconceptions/misreadings/overreadings that attend it, and that reveal the extraordinarily complex interweaving of perceptions and responses it continues to generate across different genres and in different eras.
SUBJECTS and AREAS
Romantic literature and culture; humanities; arts; adaptation studies; media studies; film and TV studies; history of music; gender studies; liberal arts; cultural studies; comparative literature; literature and science; sociology.
Nato con una duplice finalità, ermeneutica e didattica, "L’investigatore allo specchio: un approc... more Nato con una duplice finalità, ermeneutica e didattica, "L’investigatore allo specchio: un approccio transdisciplinare al poliziesco" offre una riflessione seria e al contempo appassionata sulla letteratura poliziesca e criminale. Sintetizzando il rigore del discorso scientifico con la curiosità (e la connivenza) tipica del lettore sedotto, studiosi provenienti da varie aree disciplinari analizzano aspetti complementari di questo genere dalle molteplici articolazioni interne, spostandosi dal noir cinematografico al corpo nella letteratura sensazionale e nell'antropologia criminale dell'Ottocento, dalle performances investigative dei murder mystery weekends al paesaggio sonoro e alla semiotica della detection. Il volume traccia un originale percorso multidisciplinare e intermediale attraverso approcci critici, sottogeneri e rimediazioni dell’indagine poliziesca, muovendosi dai crimini ambientati in epoca classica o medievale fino alle inchieste medico-legali popolarizzate dal piccolo schermo, sul filo di una riflessione intorno alla scrittura gialla come strumento di critica e lettura della società.
Publisher:
Bononia University Press
Contributors:
Francesca Saggini, Mirella Billi, Giorgio Cremonini, Maurizio Ascari, Sonia Maria Melchiorre, Alessandra Calanchi, Raffaella Petrilli, Elisabetta Zurru, Cristina Benicchi, Grazia Sommariva, Matteo Sanfilippo, Nicoletta Vallorani
My book, The Gothic Novel and the Stage (2015), has been shortlisted for Allan Lloyd Smith Memori... more My book, The Gothic Novel and the Stage (2015), has been shortlisted for Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize 2017 awarded by the International Gothic Association for a standout monograph published on the Gothic over the last two years (2015-2016).
"The International Gothic Association unites teachers, scholars, students, artists, writers and performers from around the world who are interested in any aspect of gothic culture: fiction, drama, poetry, art, film, music, architecture, popular culture and technology. It promotes the study and dissemination of information on gothic culture from the mid eighteenth century to the contemporary moment. The only association of its kind, the IGA is the academic centre for people interested in an analysis of the gothic." (Source: http://www.internationalgothic.group.shef.ac.uk/?page_id=55 )
Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize 2007. "In 2011, as a memorial to its founding President Dr Allan Lloyd Smith (1945-2010), the International Gothic Association established a prize to be awarded for a scholarly publication considered to have advanced the field of Gothic studies significantly. For the 2017 incarnation of the award we are delighted to announce that there will be a £100 prize for a standout monograph published on the Gothic over the last two years. For the current round of nominations, monographs published over the last 24 months (i.e., from January 1st 2015 to December 31st 2016) are eligible." (Source: http://www.internationalgothic.group.shef.ac.uk/?p=283)
This study focuses on the relationship between the late 18th c. and early 19th c. Gothic novel an... more This study focuses on the relationship between the late 18th c. and early 19th c. Gothic novel and the stage. Saggini has carried out extensive research and has detected an impressive number of sources that record stage appropriations of Gothic novels. The book is dedicated to a highly neglected Romantic genre, i.e. drama, in a manner which combines structuralist analysis with contextual historical understanding. Saggini writes lucidly in a style that will appeal to readers also outside academia, and the book contains brilliant illustrations as well as clear overviews in table form. In sum, this is a significant work of admirable scholarship, thoroughly researched and admirably documented, offering valuable insights into the eighteenth-century culture.
Honourable mention for my monograph, *The Gothic Novel and the Stage. Romantic Appropriations (Pi... more Honourable mention for my monograph, *The Gothic Novel and the Stage. Romantic Appropriations (Pickering and Chatto, 2015). European Society for the Study of English Book Awards 2016, category "Literatures in the English Language* (Senior Scholars).
My book, *The Gothic Novel and the Stage. Romantic Appropriations*, has been shortlisted for the ... more My book, *The Gothic Novel and the Stage. Romantic Appropriations*, has been shortlisted for the ESSE Book Awards 2016.
The prize is awarded to the author of a scholarly book-length manuscript in eighteenth-century st... more The prize is awarded to the author of a scholarly book-length manuscript in eighteenth-century studies, including the Americas and the Atlantic world. Submissions may be in history (including history of science), literature, philosophy, or the arts.
http://www.upress.virginia.edu/about-the-press/cowen/
Prize for Best Work of Literary, Historical and Philosophical Criticism. The prize was awarded by... more Prize for Best Work of Literary, Historical and Philosophical Criticism. The prize was awarded by the President of the Italian Republic, the Rgt. Hon. Prof. Carlo Azelio Ciampi.
Founded in 1603, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei is the oldest academy worldwide.
The Academy promotes excellence through its Fellowship which included, among many other prestigious names, Galileo Galilei. The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, placed within the sphere of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage is considered the highest Italian cultural institution.
http://www.lincei.it/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=60
Co-authored with Lois Chaber and Carl Thompson. Part 1, Volume 1 of the three-volume set, “Women’... more Co-authored with Lois Chaber and Carl Thompson. Part 1, Volume 1 of the three-volume set, “Women’s Travel Writing in the North Africa and the Middle East”. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. ISBN 9781851961399. Pp. xi-xl.
‘Miss Tully’, Narrative of a 10 Years’ Residence at Tripoli. Francesca Saggini (ed.). Part 1, Vol... more ‘Miss Tully’, Narrative of a 10 Years’ Residence at Tripoli. Francesca Saggini (ed.). Part 1, Volume 2 of the three-volume set, “Women’s Travel Writing in the North Africa and the Middle East”. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. ISBN 9781851961399. Pp. xi-xxvii.
Co-authored with Glennis Byron. Introd. to Saggini and Byron (eds), Gothic Frontiers. Special iss... more Co-authored with Glennis Byron. Introd. to Saggini and Byron (eds), Gothic Frontiers. Special issue: Textus. English Studies in Italy. 25/3 (2012). Pp. 7-24. ISBN: 978-8-8430-6404-5.
Co-authored with Anna Enrichetta Soccio. Introd. to Saggini and Soccio (eds), The House of Ficti... more Co-authored with Anna Enrichetta Soccio. Introd. to Saggini and Soccio (eds), The House of Fiction as the House of Life. Representations of the House, Richardson to Woolf. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2012. Pp. 1-9. ISBN: 978-1-4438-3976-1.
Co-authored with Janet Larson and Anna Enrichetta Soccio. Introd. to Saggini, Larson and Soccio (... more Co-authored with Janet Larson and Anna Enrichetta Soccio. Introd. to Saggini, Larson and Soccio (eds), Housing Fictions. The House in Writing and Culture, 1950 to the Present. Special issue: European Journal of English Studies 16/1 (April 2012): 1-8. ISSN: 1382-5577 (Print), 1744-4233 (Online).
DOI: 10.1080/13825577.2012.655160.
Introduction to Saggini and Ascari (eds), L’investigatore allo specchio: un approccio transdiscip... more Introduction to Saggini and Ascari (eds), L’investigatore allo specchio: un approccio transdisciplinare al poliziesco. Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2012. Pp. 9-37. ISBN 978-88-7395-687-7.
Co-authored with Charlotte Fabienne Oräzie Vallino. Introd. to Saggini and Vallino (eds), Asia ce... more Co-authored with Charlotte Fabienne Oräzie Vallino. Introd. to Saggini and Vallino (eds), Asia centrale Medio Oriente Nord Africa. Condizione della Donna, Diritti di Genere, Empowerment e Movimenti Femminili: ombre, aperture, energie, ostacoli. Viterbo: Settecittà, 2010. Pp. xiii-xxvii. ISBN: 978-88-7853-138-3.
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Co-authored with Charlotte Fabienne Oräzie Vallino. Introd. to Irene Cusmano. Enfida. Memorie dal... more Co-authored with Charlotte Fabienne Oräzie Vallino. Introd. to Irene Cusmano. Enfida. Memorie dalla Tunisia di un Tempo, ed. Saggini and Vallino. Viterbo: Settecittà, 2008. Pp. vii-xi. ISBN: 978-88-7853-153-6.
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Frances Burney and the Arts, 2022
Francesca Saggini introduces this collection of essays by leading scholars in Burney studies, and... more Francesca Saggini introduces this collection of essays by leading scholars in Burney studies, and provides an interdisciplinary critical consideration of the relationship of one of the major authors of the long English Romanticism with the arts. The encounter, Saggini claims, was not devoid of tensions, and indeed often required a degree of wrangling on Burney’s part. As evidenced by its complex biographical implications, this was a revealing and at times contentious dialogue, allowing us to reconstruct in an original and highly focused way the feminine negotiation with such key concepts of the late Enlightenment and Romanticism as virtue, reputation, creativity, originality, artistic expression, and self-construction. Saggini underlines the interconnections between mutually reinforcing forms of neighbouring artistic activities as components of a broader spectrum of interartistic and intermedial cultural signification, pivotal to contextualize and reassess Frances Burney’s work.
Pedagogia e didattica della Letteratura Inglese. Il progetto Frankenreads all'Università degli Studi della Tuscia, 2020
Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes, before th... more Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes, before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Fairy Queen for a stop-gap, or volume of Bishop Andrewes' sermons? Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which, who listens, had need bring docile thoughts, and purged ears. Winter evenings-the world shut out-with less of ceremony the gentle Shakspeare [sic] enters. At such a season, the Tempest, or his own Winter's Tale-These two poets you cannot avoid reading aloud-to yourself, or (as it chances) to some single person listening. More than one-and it degenerates into an audience. Charles Lamb, Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading (1822) [. . .] we suddenly remember that we have ears and we have eyes, and that the English language fills a long array of stout volumes with innumerable words, many of which are of more than one syllable. Virginia Woolf, The Modern Essay, The Common Reader (1925) 1
‘The Gothic in Nineteenth-century Italy.’ The Cambridge History of the Gothic (Vol. II). Ed. by D... more ‘The Gothic in Nineteenth-century Italy.’ The Cambridge History of the Gothic (Vol. II). Ed. by Dale Townshend and Angela Wright. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. 303-27.
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Francesca Saggini IL RIFLESSO DEL VAMPIRO: NELLE PERIFERIE NARRATIVE DI BRAM STOKER Be a sadist. ... more Francesca Saggini IL RIFLESSO DEL VAMPIRO: NELLE PERIFERIE NARRATIVE DI BRAM STOKER Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters are, make awful things happen to them -in order that the reader may see what they are made of. Kurt Vonnegut 1
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The essay maps Frances Burney’s life and works from the vantage point of material studies, consid... more The essay maps Frances Burney’s life and works from the vantage point of material studies, considering the houses the author lived, sojourned, and worked in. The tension between the contending discourses of “public” house and “private” house – the house as a space for entertainment and a cultural hub used to promote visibility and augment cultural capital, as opposed to the “private” house as the locus of intimacy and family life – is exemplified by the juxtaposition between the houses Frances Burney lived in as her father’s daughter – in particular the famous house at 35 St Martin’s Street, London – and the idyllic Surrey dwellings Burney moved into with her husband, Alexandre d’Arblay, including “Camilla Cottage,” which she was able to build with the profits from her third novel Camilla (1796). The essay will consider the symbolic, often mythopoetic value associated with Burney’s houses as artificial, cultural mythoi and her poetics of indirect, oblique association to accrue cultural and social capital.
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Thu, 9 March 2023, 17:00 – 18:30 GMT Location ONLINE OnlineThe digital event builds on the resea... more Thu, 9 March 2023, 17:00 – 18:30 GMT
Location ONLINE
OnlineThe digital event builds on the research experience of four speakers who have been engaged in different yet complementary ways with exploring issues of portraiture, cultural capital and memorialisation in artistic ecologies. Following a then/now heuristic approach, each panellist will discuss from an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspective the portrait of a representative figure of Romanticism and map its multi-layered afterlives for different purposes across time. What is lost and what is gained in these transartistic, transcultural and transhistoric traffics? Is an author portrait a biographical, an autobiographical or an autobiografictive act? And what can transmediations and transculturation contribute to our knowledge of Romantic politics as well as their later appropriation and resignification? The topics to be discussed in this event include: the portrait and/in the public sphere; transhistorical constructions of authorship; portraiture and street art; transmedia authors; portraits in State documents and objects. The case studies the speakers will engage with to explore the multi-sided domain of Romantic portraiture and its afterlives are Jane Austen, Frances Burney, Walter Scott and Toussaint Louverture.
The speakers for this event are Dr Valentina Aparicio (Queen Mary, University of London), Dr Rita J. Dashwood (University of Liverpool), Professor Francesca Saggini (University of Edinburgh) and Professor Anna Enrichetta Soccio (Università di Chieti).
Date and time Thu, 21 April 2022 18:00 – 19:30 CEST Location Online event The seminar build... more Date and time
Thu, 21 April 2022
18:00 – 19:30 CEST
Location
Online event
The seminar builds on the research and teaching experience of five speakers operating in four national contexts (Ireland, Italy, UK, USA) to draw a tentative map of the evolving domain of Theatre Studies from a transdisciplinary and multinational perspective. Each panellist will present their present and future engagement with Romantic Theatre Studies by way of their research projects and current scholarship. Among the topics discussed in this seminar: Theatre and Disability, Theatre Econom(etr)ics, Theatre and Celebrity, Theatre and Gender, Opening the Romantic Theatre Canon. Issues of pedagogy and stage revival will be addressed as well, with Romantic Theatre in the classroom, on stage and in the canon. Two speakers will be able to share their experience as major EU-funded awardees, addressing the call of/for public-facing humanities and Theatre Studies.
Our speakers include Sarah Burdett (St Mary’s University), Helen Dallas (University of Oxford), Essaka Joshua (Notre Dame University), David O’Shaughnessy (NUI Galway), Francesca Saggini (University of Edinburgh).
The event is organised by Francesca Saggini (University of Edinburgh
The narrative of the Burney family’s social ascent is a familiar one to scholars of the late eigh... more The narrative of the Burney family’s social ascent is a familiar one to scholars of the late eighteenth century. Yet the well-rehearsed tale of Charles Burney’s climb from provincial poverty to relative fame and fortune in London, raising his family into the ranks of the middle classes in the process, conveniently mythologises both the Burneys and the metropolis itself. This conference will consider how the Burneys and their circle engaged with or constructed narratives of marginality and/or centrality; their relationship to marginal and/or mainstream culture and society; and the imaginative use they made of such categories. Broad interpretations of these concepts are welcomed.
https://burneysociety.wordpress.com/2018/05/12/burney-society-uk-conference-2019/
"Global Burneys." July 26, 2017. Double panel at the BARS 2017 International Conference, King's M... more "Global Burneys." July 26, 2017. Double panel at the BARS 2017 International Conference, King's Manor, York (July 26-30).
Romanzo “parlato” per eccellenza -eseguito come un raffinato esercizio di persuasione dei vari na... more Romanzo “parlato” per eccellenza -eseguito come un raffinato esercizio di persuasione dei vari narratori, le cui voci emergono in un panorama acustico complesso e affascinante fatto di musica, voci, suoni e varie evocazioni uditive- Frankenstein rappresenta l’apice del complesso sistema estetico multimodale tipico del Romanticismo inglese, un vero panorama acustico che lentamente riemerge a fianco della bidimensionalità della pagina scritta, in cui la voce e l’orecchio entrano in dialogo, talvolta in conflitto, con l’occhio e la visione.
Frankenread@DISTU. I suoni del romanzo, un evento organizzato dal Dipartimento DISTU per celebrare il bicentenario della pubblicazione del romanzo di Mary Shelley, si terrà nell’Aula Magna di San Carlo il 31 ottobre 2018. La mattina verrà dedicata alla lettura di passi scelti del romanzo di Mary Shelley, effettuata a più voci con l’aiuto degli studenti delle scuole di Viterbo, i docenti e il pubblico. Nel pomeriggio seguirà la visione guidata di spezzoni significativi tratti da vari adattamenti filmici e rappresentazioni teatrali ispirate a Frankenstein. L’intera giornata sarà preparata attraverso una serie di incontri e lezioni universitarie a tema che si terranno nel mese di ottobre 2018.
Tutte le attività previste sono a ingresso libero. I gruppi di oltre 10 persone sono pregati di prendere appuntamento almeno 15 giorni lavorativi prima dell’evento con l’organizzatrice a fsaggini@unitus.it .
Frankenread@DISTU fa parte dell'iniziativa mondiale frankenreads ed è stato scelto come partner ufficiale. Dettagli dell'iniziativa a http://frankenreads.org/ "An international celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for Halloween 2018 organized by the Keats-Shelley Association of America".
A wide range of papers to expand the contexts of Burney and Johnson Studies, including including ... more A wide range of papers to expand the contexts of Burney and Johnson Studies, including including including a Keynote talk by Peter Sabor , our Honorary President.
Registration is at 10.30 am & the Symposium will close with a wine reception and ‘round table’ discussion from 6 – 7pm.
Unità dei Servizi Linguistici Dipartimento DISTU "Gestire studenti DSA nella classe di lingua ... more Unità dei Servizi Linguistici
Dipartimento DISTU
"Gestire studenti DSA nella classe di lingua ad abilità differenziate:
problemi e proposte operative." Seminario di aggiornamento dedicato alla gestione delle differenze in classe
Relatori:
Fabio Caon (Venezia)
Annalisa Brichese (Venezia)
Martedì 26 settembre 2017, ore 14.30 - 17.30
Coordinamento Scientifico: Prof.ssa Francesca Saggini
La giornata si celebra con laboratori, musica e giochi, in collaborazione con Tetraedro. L'evento... more La giornata si celebra con laboratori, musica e giochi, in collaborazione con Tetraedro. L'evento è aperto a tutti. Evento nella lista ufficiale del Consiglio d'Europa Via S. Carlo 32, Viterbo info: 0761.357897 distulab@unitus.it Segreteria organizzativa: Emilia Iandiorio Prof. Fabio Caon (Ca' Foscari, VE) Apprendere le lingue: una sfida per il presente e per il futuro 10.30-12.15 Aule aperte al DISTU -Attività di promozione dell'Unità dei Servizi Linguistici -Laboratorio linguistico-teatrale con Tetraedro -Laboratorio di intercomprensione (a cura di S. Di Vito e R. Giordano) 12.15-13.45 Merenda di arrivederci Comitato organizzatore e scientifico:
IV International Congress. Gender Studies in the Italian and Lusophone Countries. Please see atta... more IV International Congress. Gender Studies in the Italian and Lusophone Countries.
Please see attached rationale and CFP.
Viterbo, 23, 24, 25 November 2017
Viterbo, Universita' della Tuscia
Please RSVP directly to me and I shall put you in touch with the relevant committee members. Alternatively, you may write to 4congressoestudosdegenero@gmail.com for further information.
Cardiff Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Seminar. March 13th, 2017
Il DISTU chiude il primo semestre con due eventi a più voci per celebrare la vitalità delle Lingu... more Il DISTU chiude il primo semestre con due eventi a più voci per celebrare la vitalità delle Lingue e delle Letterature straniere nell'Ateneo viterbese
Settimana di fine semestre particolarmente intensa al Dipartimento di studi linguistico-letterari, storico-filosofici e giuridici dell’Ateneo viterbese. Si inizia martedì 13 dicembre (Complesso di San Carlo, Via San Carlo 32, h. 13-17) con una lezione-conferenza tenuta da Enrico Terrinoni (Professore di Letteratura Inglese all’Università per Stranieri di Perugia) e Fabio Pedone (traduttore, giornalista culturale e consulente editoriale), dedicata alle traduzioni e trasmutazioni infinite in italiano di passi del Finnegans Wake di James Joyce. L’opera, la cui traduzione italiana dei primi 4 capitoli del libro primo uscì nel 1982 a cura di Luigi Schenoni, si è interrotta alla fine del libro secondo con la morte del traduttore. Il nuovo team di traduttori ha accettato la sfida lanciata dall’editore Mondadori di proseguire e completare l’opera, il cui prossimo volume è in uscita per il 13 gennaio 2017, in occasione del 76° anniversario della morte di Joyce. A seguire, Terrinoni e Pedone terranno una masterclass di traduzione del Finnegans Wake, testo che può a buon diritto essere considerato la sfida joyciana alla stabilità del linguaggio e dei suoi limiti, essendo scritto in una lingua che sembra inglese, ma che è però “colonizzata” da più di quaranta lingue, che ne destabilizzano ogni status di lingua franca. Terrinoni, fine lettore del grande dublinese e autore di una pregevole traduzione dell’Ulisse che ha vinto il "Premio Napoli” per la Lingua e la Cultura Italiana nel 2012, si confronterà con la forma-mondo del Finnegans e con Pedone tenterà di decostruirne la polifonia, proponendo una serie di riflessioni su singoli passi e su alcune possibilità, piuttosto che soluzioni, traduttive.
L’evento del 13 dicembre, organizzato dalla professoressa Francesca Saggini, ordinario di Letteratura Inglese e coordinatore dell’Unità dei Servizi Linguistici del DISTU, e dalla professoressa Michela Marroni, professore di Lingua e Traduzione Inglese, costituisce la prima tappa di un tandem linguistico-letterario che avrà termine venerdì 16 dicembre con una mattina di studi dedicati alla riscoperta del celeberrimo romanzo di Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, dal titolo Beyond the Bolt. Frankenstein and its (Un)likenesses (Aula Magna, Complesso di San Carlo, h. 9-13), inizialmente programmata per il 28 ottobre e rimandata per gli eventi sismici di fine ottobre. La mattina di studi, organizzata dalla prof. Saggini, questa volta in sinergia con le dottoresse Alberta Boschi, Jessica Cesti e Maria Cristina Tamagnini, sarà un’occasione per riflettere, in un dialogo interdisciplinare tra testo, schermo, scena e arti visive, su un evento centrale per la tradizione letteraria e culturale moderna. Tra i relatori Benedetta Bini, Antonella Del Prete, Federico Meschini, Gino Roncaglia e Anna Enrichetta Soccio.
Entrambi gli eventi sono aperti al pubblico e alle scuole della provincia. Gli interessati possono prendere contatto con il Dipartimento di studi linguistico-letterari, storico-filosofici e giuridici dell’Università della Tuscia.
Il DISTU chiude il primo semestre con due eventi a più voci per celebrare la vitalità delle Lingu... more Il DISTU chiude il primo semestre con due eventi a più voci per celebrare la vitalità delle Lingue e delle Letterature straniere nell'Ateneo viterbese
Settimana di fine semestre particolarmente intensa al Dipartimento di studi linguistico-letterari, storico-filosofici e giuridici dell’Ateneo viterbese. Si inizia martedì 13 dicembre (Complesso di San Carlo, Via San Carlo 32, h. 13-17) con una lezione-conferenza tenuta da Enrico Terrinoni (Professore di Letteratura Inglese all’Università per Stranieri di Perugia) e Fabio Pedone (traduttore, giornalista culturale e consulente editoriale), dedicata alle traduzioni e trasmutazioni infinite in italiano di passi del Finnegans Wake di James Joyce. L’opera, la cui traduzione italiana dei primi 4 capitoli del libro primo uscì nel 1982 a cura di Luigi Schenoni, si è interrotta alla fine del libro secondo con la morte del traduttore. Il nuovo team di traduttori ha accettato la sfida lanciata dall’editore Mondadori di proseguire e completare l’opera, il cui prossimo volume è in uscita per il 13 gennaio 2017, in occasione del 76° anniversario della morte di Joyce. A seguire, Terrinoni e Pedone terranno una masterclass di traduzione del Finnegans Wake, testo che può a buon diritto essere considerato la sfida joyciana alla stabilità del linguaggio e dei suoi limiti, essendo scritto in una lingua che sembra inglese, ma che è però “colonizzata” da più di quaranta lingue, che ne destabilizzano ogni status di lingua franca. Terrinoni, fine lettore del grande dublinese e autore di una pregevole traduzione dell’Ulisse che ha vinto il "Premio Napoli” per la Lingua e la Cultura Italiana nel 2012, si confronterà con la forma-mondo del Finnegans e con Pedone tenterà di decostruirne la polifonia, proponendo una serie di riflessioni su singoli passi e su alcune possibilità, piuttosto che soluzioni, traduttive.
L’evento del 13 dicembre, organizzato dalla professoressa Francesca Saggini, ordinario di Letteratura Inglese e coordinatore dell’Unità dei Servizi Linguistici del DISTU, e dalla professoressa Michela Marroni, professore di Lingua e Traduzione Inglese, costituisce la prima tappa di un tandem linguistico-letterario che avrà termine venerdì 16 dicembre con una mattina di studi dedicati alla riscoperta del celeberrimo romanzo di Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, dal titolo Beyond the Bolt. Frankenstein and its (Un)likenesses (Aula Magna, Complesso di San Carlo, h. 9-13), inizialmente programmata per il 28 ottobre e rimandata per gli eventi sismici di fine ottobre. La mattina di studi, organizzata dalla prof. Saggini, questa volta in sinergia con le dottoresse Alberta Boschi, Jessica Cesti e Maria Cristina Tamagnini, sarà un’occasione per riflettere, in un dialogo interdisciplinare tra testo, schermo, scena e arti visive, su un evento centrale per la tradizione letteraria e culturale moderna. Tra i relatori Benedetta Bini, Antonella Del Prete, Federico Meschini, Gino Roncaglia e Anna Enrichetta Soccio.
Entrambi gli eventi sono aperti al pubblico e alle scuole della provincia. Gli interessati possono prendere contatto con il Dipartimento di studi linguistico-letterari, storico-filosofici e giuridici dell’Università della Tuscia.
Ciclo di Seminari organizzati dalla Cattedra di Letteratura Inglese LM62 Universita' della Tuscia... more Ciclo di Seminari organizzati dalla Cattedra di Letteratura Inglese LM62 Universita' della Tuscia. Organizzazione e responsabile scientifico: Francesca Saggini.
Il prossimo lunedì 26 settembre si celebrerà presso i locali del Dipartimento di studi linguistic... more Il prossimo lunedì 26 settembre si celebrerà presso i locali del Dipartimento di studi linguistico-letterari, storico-filosofico e giuridici (DISTU) dell’Università degli Studi della Tuscia la Giornata Europea delle Lingue 2016, manifestazione promossa dal direttore professore Giulio Vesperini e dal Coordinatore dell’Università dei Servizi linguistici professoressa Francesca Saggini.
La giornata dedicata al tema “Giocare con la lingua, tormentoni, deformazioni, somiglianze e grammelot”, prevede una sessione plenaria con la partecipazione della dottoressa Licia Corbolante, che, già docente di traduzione e storia italiana contemporanea presso la University of Salford e responsabile degli aspetti linguistici della localizzazione dei prodotti Microsoft in italiano (Italian Language Specialist a Dublino e Senior Italian Terminologist a Milano), svolge attualmente attività di formazione nell’ambito della ricerca terminologica, localizzazione, localizzabilità, qualità linguistica e comunicazione interculturale.
A seguire, i docenti responsabili delle aree linguistiche interessate (arabo, cinese, francese, inglese, italiano, portoghese, russo, spagnolo, tedesco) allestiranno spazi dedicati in cui coinvolgere gli studenti presenti: si terranno seminari, concerti, attività esercitative.
L’evento, gratuito, a cui tutta la popolazione è invitata, testimonia -ancora una volta- l’apertura del dipartimento DISTU al territorio e alle esigenze di formazione linguistica e culturale dei giovani in un’ottica pienamente internazionale e globalizzata: saranno presenti, infatti, anche i dirigenti scolastici e gli allievi degli istituti del comprensorio.
L’evento si concluderà con un intermezzo gastronomico, in cui sarà possibile degustare piatti tipici di tutte le realtà culturali coinvolte.
Beyond the Bolt: Frankenstein and its (Un)Likenesses October 28 Universita’ degli Studi della Tus... more Beyond the Bolt: Frankenstein and its (Un)Likenesses
October 28
Universita’ degli Studi della Tuscia
Una giornata di studio dedicata alla riscoperta di Frankenstein di Mary Shelley
(A one-day symposium)
The International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) is pleased to announce the 2018 ... more The International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) is pleased to announce the 2018 International Seminar for Early Career Eighteenth-Century Scholars. Colleagues from all fields of eighteenth-century studies are invited to submit abstracts for this one-week event. Formerly called the East-West Seminar, the International Seminar for Early Career Eighteenth-Century Scholars brings together young researchers from a number of countries each year. The 2018 meeting will take place in Viterbo, Italy and will be organized by Prof. Francesca Saggini and the Dipartimento di studi linguistico-letterari, storico-filosofici e giuridici – DISTU.
The seminar will be held from Monday, September 10 to Friday, September 14, 2018 in Viterbo.
The 2018 ISECS International Seminar for Early Career Scholars will engage discussions on the forms, representations and modalities of silence in the eighteenth century.
Silence, of individuals and cultures, of the physical voice or of the written word and information deleted from the page, has historically taken many forms. It may be reticent, dissembling or imposed by others. Voluntary or coerced, it might be the silence of women, of marginal social and religious groups, of communities that are denied the right to speak. There are other silences as well: the interruption of sound in a musical pause and the silence of religious practices, which speak to, and of, the inner life. All these forms of silence were present in the eighteenth century, as they had been throughout history, but perhaps for the first time, some of them were singled out for special scrutiny. Works on aesthetics, for example, investigated the use of silence and the implicit in rhetorical writing, or dwelled on reverie, and how it might be induced in the reader. In rhetoric, attention was paid to discursive figures and strategies capable of making silence more eloquent than the word. Conduct books devoted many pages to the art of conversation, emphasising the essential role of silence to ensure the correctness of social interactions, especially for women, but also for politicians. Censorship – whether institutional or self-imposed – also produces silences, as do the more or less conscious failures of memory found in life writing and in historical discourse: one need only think of the revisions required to write the history of colonialism, wars or slavery. Eighteenth-century historiography attempted to remove some of the silences it found in history, often filling in the lacunae through conjecture. Silence is also represented in the visual arts and, signally, in the novel, which devised new narrative techniques for the purpose, whether to evoke the silences in characters’ conversations, and the contexts and landscapes in which silence reigns (a hallmark of the picturesque, for example), or to leave the reader in suspense by strategically withholding information. And then there is the theatre, where after the triumph of pantomime and the illegitimate spectacles that deployed a hybridized combination of body, speech, stage machinery and lighting effects, the century comes to a close with the rise of melodrama, which replaced the spoken word with music and revolutionised the notion of acting as the art of speech, while giving new prominence to silent characters and heroes. Finally, there is the silence that becomes firmly and widely established in the eighteenth century through the practice of reading narrative texts for oneself, replacing the social activity of reading aloud for a group of listeners with a solitary, interiorized experience. On these and other silences, on silence in all its forms and meanings in the eighteenth century, the seminar calls for contributions. The theme of the conference, “Silence in eighteenth-century arts, history and philosophy,” must thus be understood in the broadest terms possible to include:
- anonymity
- silence, reflection, meditation
- social silence, silence and social interaction
- negation: denials, disclaimers, disavowals
- silence and secrets
- censorship and self-censorship
- ellipses, omissions, blank pages, hyphens, asterisks – the typographical and linguistic modes of silence
- ghost chapters (deleted, lost, rewritten)
- silenced characters, characters that disappear
- quiet spaces: the loci of silence
- reading and silence
- silence as resistance and rebellion
- scripting silence and muteness
- the performativity of silence
- silence and the canon
- silence and history
- silence in relation to cultural memory studies
- silence and/as remembrance
The seminar is limited to 15 participants. The proposals (approx. 3 pages, double-spaced, max 1,000 words) should be based on an original research project (e.g. a doctoral dissertation) which addresses one of the aspects mentioned above. Because this is a seminar rather than a conference, each participant will be given approximately one hour to present the texts and questions that will then form the basis of a group discussion led in turn by one of the participants. Preference will be given to scholars who are at the beginning of their academic career (ABD; PhD or equivalent for less than six years, including ECRs). The official languages of the seminar are English, Italian, French. Translations of abstracts and various seminar materials not in English will be made available to participants.
Applications should include the following information: a brief curriculum vitae with date of PhD (or equivalent); a list of principal publications and scholarly presentations; a brief description of the proposed paper (approx. 3 pages, double-spaced, max 1,000 words); and one letter of recommendation. Colleagues are invited to submit proposals by January 31, 2018. Please send abstracts by e-mail to Francesca Saggini: fsaggini@unitus.it, ccing into the conversation Alberta Boschi alberta.boschi@gmail.com . If your email programme supports the delivery receipt option we encourage you to request delivery receipt. We will attempt to notify all correspondents before February 28, 2018 regarding the status of their submission
Seminar accepted for the 2016 European Society for Study of English Conference. Galway (Ireland),... more Seminar accepted for the 2016 European Society for Study of English Conference. Galway (Ireland), Monday 22nd – Friday 26th August 2016. General submission policies may be seen at http://www.esse2016.org/ . To submit a proposal to the Seminar Organisers please read attached CFP of Seminar.
Deadline of submission of paper proposals: February 28, 2016. Presenters will be notified that their papers have been accepted (or not) by March 31, 2016.
Please note: Conference website being currently updated with list of panels and seminars accepted. Further details for both Conference and Seminar to follow soon. Meanwhile, RSVP if interested to both fsaggini@unitus.it and esoccio@unich.it.
Opening Romanticism: Reimagining Romantic Drama for New AudiencesA Data Management Plan created using DMPonline, 2022
Capitolo dedicato alla rivalutazione dell'autore gallese in ottica transculturale. La ricerca ... more Capitolo dedicato alla rivalutazione dell'autore gallese in ottica transculturale.
La ricerca è stata pubblicata all'interno del mio libro, Il fantasma in salotto (2020).
The book was published in 2018.
Further to a series of international Seminars I have organised (most recently, in Oxford and Rott... more Further to a series of international Seminars I have organised (most recently, in Oxford and Rotterdam), an American colleague and I have started to explore possibilities around putting together an edited collection (in English) on domesticity and alternative domesticities (including transgressive ones, such as incest, concubinage and other illicit intimacies) in the long eighteenth century from a transnational perspective. Status: materials being collected and feedback from prospective contributors being received. Outline being drafted.
RSVP if interested and/or carrying out research in germane area(s).
Project to be presented at forthcoming 2016 ESSE Conference (Galway, Ireland). Currently, I am ca... more Project to be presented at forthcoming 2016 ESSE Conference (Galway, Ireland). Currently, I am carrying out research on the phatic and communicative functions of hashtags. Current supervesees in area: two. RSVP if interested in my project and wish to receive updates.
My interest in Frances Burney, dramatist is leading me towards a new research monograph. I will e... more My interest in Frances Burney, dramatist is leading me towards a new research monograph. I will explore the relationships between Burney's dramas and the European Romantic stage (partic. Gothic dramas, historical dramas, and opera seria). RSVP if interested in my project and wish to receive updates.
Deconstructionism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and similarly sophisticated hermeneutic to... more Deconstructionism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and similarly sophisticated hermeneutic tools of contemporary analysis have explored, interpreted, and often over-interpreted texts. Today, my talk wishes to move the focus of discussion back to the author, whose death was predicted perhaps too hastily in the 1960s and 1970s, in particular back to the materiality surrounding authorship. I shall direct my analysis to the author’s writing desk and to the neglected heuristic and hermeneutic
potential of this humble piece of furniture. My presentation will provide a broad canvas of investigation, to then zero in on the writing desks of Samuel Richardson, William Cowper, Jane Austen and Frances Burney, among others. I shall provide a ppt with essential images to encourage discussion among the participants.
It is well known that the neglect of the dramatic works composed by Frances Burney (1752-1840) wa... more It is well known that the neglect of the dramatic works composed by Frances Burney (1752-1840) was largely caused by the unwavering opposition put up by her father, the famed musicologist Charles Burney, who shared the strong anti-theatrical prejudice that characterized the century as a whole. Paradoxically, this critical disregard has partly continued even after the watershed publication of Burney’s Complete Plays (Sabor ed.) in 1995. Although a number of interesting contributions have since reformulated Burney scholarship in terms of comedy (discussing, for instance, the comic elements in Evelina, or the genteel comedies The Witlings and A Busy Day), the tragic component of Burney’s opus remains one of the last frontiers of enquiry. My talk, "Between a Pastoral and Melodrama: Frances Burney and the Romantic Stage", offers a new dimension to the appraisal of Burney’s dramaturgy by focusing on 'Hubert De Vere, a Pastoral Tragedy,' written during Burney’s years at George III’s court (1786-1794). Despite the interest shown by John Philip Kemble, the greatest tragic actor of the age and the manager of Drury Lane Theatre, Hubert De Vere never reached the stage or, more surprisingly, the printed page, preordaining its subsequent critical eclipse.
This research is part of the Horizon 2020 project called "Opening Romanticism: Reimagining Romantic Drama for New Audiences"(OpeRaNew) ID 892230 within the ERC programme Horizon 2020 MSCA-IF-2019. The PI is Francesca Saggini. See CORDIS website at https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/892230
The contribution is available in OA at the below link.
The connections between the short story The Vampyre, and Italy are numerous. First and foremost, ... more The connections between the short story The Vampyre, and Italy are numerous. First and foremost, of course, we have Polidori's family heritage. Born in London in 1795 to the expatriate Gaetano, John William Polidori was the eldest son in a family of intense literary activity, in which the passion for the Italian language and culture had remained very much alive. Much has been said about the complicated composition and publication history of Polidori's celebrated story, especially regarding its relationship with Lord Byron and the company at Villa Diodati. Fabio Camilletti (2020) and Nick Groom (2022) have offered crucial, and to me, conclusive, insights on the troubled genesis of Polidori's work and its even more troubled editorial history. Perpetuo desìo proposes some reflection on the metacultural significance of The Vampyre and reconstruct its first Italian reception, starting from a simple observation. The numerous critics who have dealt with the European reception of Polidori's work agree in attributing a seminal role to this text, characterised by an almost biological capacity (Bortolotti & Hutcheon, 2007) of cultural adaptation. While the posthumous reception of The Vampyre is well documented beyond the Alps, I was surprised to see that Italy hardly appears in these comparative investigations, as if the success and influence of Polidori's text had only scathingly touched the Italian peninsula. Despite the dearth of systematised critical studies, is it conceivable, I wonder, that Italy was truly impermeable to the influence of a figure such as the vampire created by Polidori, a character that immediately became a mythos, a transcultural and transmedia European phenomenon, and a true seme of our own modernity? Also, how does such an ‘explosive’ text, in Lotman's definition (1992; Eng. vers. 2009), such as Polidori's, fit into the composite political and cultural mosaic of early nineteenth-century Italy?
My paper will be looking at representations of the vampire in Italy before and after the publication of Polidori's seminal The Vampyre. I use the term Italy to indicate the Italian peninsula, well aware that Italy is a much later socio-political concept. I use the word representations as I analyse several type of texts, in their transmedia transits.
British Romanticism and Europe Conference
Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland
Thursday 23 June to Sunday 26 June 2022
Presentation for the BARS Digital Event Seminar *Romantic Theatre Studies: state-of-the field and... more Presentation for the BARS Digital Event Seminar *Romantic Theatre Studies: state-of-the field and new ways forward*
Convegno @DISTU, Universita' della Tuscia (Viterbo), 20-22 aprile 2022. Comitato organizzativo: ... more Convegno @DISTU, Universita' della Tuscia (Viterbo), 20-22 aprile 2022.
Comitato organizzativo: A. Cifariello, E. De Blasio, P. Del Zoppo, G. Fiordaliso.
LINK per collegamento Zoom https://unitus.zoom.us/j/98743718654 . Free and open to all.
This is planned for Saturday 11 to Monday 13 June 2022, to correspond with the twentieth annivers... more This is planned for Saturday 11 to Monday 13 June 2022, to correspond with the twentieth anniversary of the unveiling of the stained-glass window to commemorate Frances Burney in Westminster Abbey.
A President’s Prize of £200 will be awarded for a postgraduate/early career paper.
Venues:
11 June at Foundling Museum London – 12 June at Alton House Hotel, Alton – 13 June at St Bride Foundation London
Registration & lunch: £130 for all 3 days; £100 for 2 days; £70 for 1 day
50% reduction for Students/Precariously employed
Registration form Word
Tropologies of Death in Burneyland. The #dead body in Memoirs of Doctor Burney and the journal... more Tropologies of Death in Burneyland.
The #dead body in Memoirs of Doctor Burney and the journals at the centre of my talk @ THE LANGUAGE OF SCIENCE IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY https://www.dilass.unich.it/eventi-cusve . Real and imaginary deaths, tropological readings, and the monologic voice of the narrator.
27 October c.11am (10am BST) online.
Join us on Zoom
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ID riunione: 955 2071 0096
Passcode: 457001
Tropologies of Death in Burneyland. The #dead body in Memoirs of Doctor Burney and the journal... more Tropologies of Death in Burneyland.
The #dead body in Memoirs of Doctor Burney and the journals at the centre of my talk @ THE LANGUAGE OF SCIENCE IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY https://www.dilass.unich.it/eventi-cusve . Real and imaginary deaths, tropological readings, and the monologic voice of the narrator.
27 October c.11am (10am BST) online.
Join us on Zoom
https://zoom.us/j/95520710096?pwd=aHVla20rMEV2RVplVHBDcFdHM2VSZz09
ID riunione: 955 2071 0096
Passcode: 457001
14 June 2021, 18:00 - 19:00 (BST) via Zoom
My talk maps Frances Burney’s life and works from the vantage viewpoint of material studies, cons... more My talk maps Frances Burney’s life and works from the vantage viewpoint of material studies, considering the houses the author lived, sojourned and worked in. The tension between the contending discourses of ‘public’ house and ‘private’ house / home –the house as a space for entertainment and a cultural hub used to promote visibility and augment cultural capital opposed to the ‘private’ house as the locus of intimacy and family life- is exemplified by the juxtaposition between the houses Frances Burney lived in as her father’s daughter – in particular the famous house in St Martin’s Street where Charles Burney held fashionable musical soirées– and the idyllic Surrey cottage Burney was able to build with the profits from the her third novel Camilla (1796), quite significantly named ‘Camilla Cottage’, where she moved in with her husband, Alexandre d’Arblay, in 1797. My talk will also consider the symbolic, often mythopoetic value associated with Burney’s houses as artificial, cultural mythoi, in a deeply-freighted paradigmatic shift from early authorial propriety to later authorial property.
Urbinoise - Noir e paesaggio sonoro Nell’anno internazionale del suono, URBINOIR si interroga su... more Urbinoise - Noir e paesaggio sonoro
Nell’anno internazionale del suono, URBINOIR si interroga su suoni, rumori, voci e silenzi del noir
Questa edizione è rivolta a tutti gli appassionati di noir, di paesaggio sonoro, agli studenti universitari e alle scuole superiori (docenti e studenti)
27 novembre streaming
My paper was: "Ripresa dei classici e ideologie pre-romantiche nel romanzo di Alessandro Verri “L... more My paper was: "Ripresa dei classici e ideologie pre-romantiche nel romanzo di Alessandro Verri “Le avventure di Saffo poetessa di Mitilene” (1780-1782)”
Frances Burney is often best known as the writer of pioneering novels of manners that inspired Ja... more Frances Burney is often best known as the writer of pioneering novels of manners that inspired Jane Austen, such as Evelina, or: The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World (1778). But she was also a playwright, who drew upon a rich tradition of tragic drama to reflect on her experiences at the court of George III and, more broadly, the ideological constraints that women faced in eighteenth-century society. In this talk, Francesca Saggini will discuss Burney’s ‘Tragic Muse’, and will more broadly reflect on the way that critical reception inflects our treatment of Burney and other late eighteenth-century dramatists.
In my presentation I shall be reconsidering a few biographies of Frances Burney. From the early b... more In my presentation I shall be reconsidering a few biographies of Frances Burney. From the early biographical narratives to the more recent ones, in a progress from Madame d’Arblay to Fanny to Frances, I shall be reconstructing the history of Burney’s biographies, how they responded to literary and psychological trends and critical schools, including the politics of canon formation. Therefore I shall consider some of the main issues relating to truth and imagination, auto-mimesis, public and private life that contributed significantly to the various constructions of Burney’s authorial personae.
Saturday 23 November, 2019. Chairs Miriam al Jamil and Felicity Roberts.
The Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 seminars take place on Saturdays in autumn and winter at the Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ, starting promptly at 1pm and finishing at 4pm. Doors open at 12.30pm, and there is a break for tea, coffee and biscuits halfway through the session.
In my presentation I shall be reconsidering a few biographies of Frances Burney. From the early b... more In my presentation I shall be reconsidering a few biographies of Frances Burney. From the early biographical narratives to the more recent ones, in a progress from Madame d’Arblay to Fanny to Frances, I shall be reconstructing the history of Burney’s biographies, how they responded to literary and psychological trends and critical schools, including the politics of canon formation. Therefore I shall consider some of the main issues relating to truth and imagination, auto-mimesis, public and private life that contributed significantly to the various constructions of Burney’s authorial personae.
Women's Writing, 2015
Women's Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East, Part I Shirley Foster University o... more Women's Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East, Part I
Shirley Foster
University of Sheffield
Published online: 02 Apr 2015.
MEROPE Rivista semestrale di studi umanistici , 2018
Review by Francesca D'Alfonso. Transmedia Creatures. Frankenstein's Afterlives in MEROPE. Rivista... more Review by Francesca D'Alfonso. Transmedia Creatures. Frankenstein's Afterlives
in MEROPE. Rivista semestrale di studi umanistici
ANNO XXVII - N. 67-68 - Gennaio-Luglio 2018 - nuova serie.
Science Fiction Studies, 2020
Review of my co-edited collection, "Transmedia Creatures" (with A. E. Soccio)
REVIEW by Chris Washington Mary Shelley / Transmedia Creatures: Frankenstein’s Afterlives by Ange... more REVIEW by Chris Washington
Mary Shelley / Transmedia Creatures: Frankenstein’s Afterlives
by Angela Wright, Cardiff, U of Wales P, 2018, ix + 167 pp., 1 illustration.edited by Francesca Saggini and Anna Enrichetta Soccio, Lewisburg, PA, Bucknell UP, 2019, ix + 283 pp., 6 illustrations.
Chris Washington (2020) Mary Shelley / Transmedia Creatures: Frankenstein’s Afterlives, European Romantic Review, 31:1, 110-116, DOI: 10.1080/10509585.2020.1698115
Revenant, Issue 4: Gothic Feminisms: http://www.revenantjournal.com/
Review by Ros Ballaster, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 37: 544–545.
Review by Helen E. M. Brooks, Review of English Studies (2014) 65 (269): 361-363.
Review by Stewart Cooke (Co-Director, Burney Centre, McGill University). Eighteenth-century ficti... more Review by Stewart Cooke (Co-Director, Burney Centre, McGill University). Eighteenth-century fiction. 26, no. 2, (2013): 319-321.
Review by Cassandra Ulph, Literature & History23.2 (Autumn 2014): 91-92.
The hybrid workshop 'A Mad Rage for Possessing a Library', which will be held at the University o... more The hybrid workshop 'A Mad Rage for Possessing a Library', which will be held at the University of York on Monday 13th February 2023.
Organiser: Dr Sophie Coulombeau
La presenza del romanzo
Novenet - 1st meeting. Venice, 10 March 2023. @IUAV University
Since the rise of mass publishing during the eighteenth century, readers have wanted to see a por... more Since the rise of mass publishing during the eighteenth century, readers have wanted to see a portrait of an author in order to associate their face with their work. Illustrated frontispieces to books are just one among many manifestations of this desire to give a material body and a face to the authors of fiction. Author portraiture played an important role in the development of a true celebrity market. In her talk, Francesca Saggini will retrace the cultural and economic elements of visual authorship by taking Frances Burney as her case study. Francesca's journey of literary detection will find an amazing, and truly unexpected, conclusion in Surrey. Which face will Frances have? We will be all invited to take our pick from the gallery of pictures illustrating this talk.
The event will take place on:
Thursday 2 February 2023 at Leatherhead Library, Church Street, Leatherhead, from 7.30pm to 8.30pm.
Tickets cost £5. Book your ticket for The Face that Launched 1000 Books.
A partnership event between Surrey Heritage and Surrey Libraries.
(1752-1840) lived and wrote in Surrey and was inspired by the area's beautiful countryside and ga... more (1752-1840) lived and wrote in Surrey and was inspired by the area's beautiful countryside and gardens in the Mole Valley area. To celebrate Fanny Burney and the area she loved, Surrey Libraries and Surrey Heritage are pleased to announce our Photography Competition 'Frances Burney's Surrey'. We would love to receive your photographs of places or buildings around Surrey, especially in the Mole Valley area, which were associated with Fanny Burney, or which inspire you today. For full competition rules and information on how to enter please go to www.surreycc.gov.uk/libraryevents
Frances Burney (1752-1840), also known as Fanny Burney, was a novelist, diarist and playwright. I... more Frances Burney (1752-1840), also known as Fanny Burney, was a novelist, diarist and playwright. In this talk, Francesca Saggini will explore her close links with Surrey in the 1790s, her marriage to the French exile, Alexandre d'Arblay at Mickleham on 28 July 1793 and the three houses that she called home around Great Bookham: Phoenice Farm, Fair Field House and Camilla Cottage. For Burney, recovering from a stifling Royal appointment at Court, these were precious places of intimacy in a rural setting that inspired her creativity and led to the publication of her popular novel, Camilla, or a Picture of Youth (1796). These cottage gardens, set in Surrey's countryside provided a retreat from the world, a precious place where Burney could grow as a writer and develop her literary career.
#Livefrom Lucy Lucy Cavendish College Wednesday Talks, 27 Oct 2021
#LivefromLucy: 'The Room and the World. Frances Burney's Paper Houses' with Professor Francesca ... more #LivefromLucy: 'The Room and the World. Frances Burney's Paper Houses' with Professor Francesca Saggini
Date: 27/10/2021
Time: 6pm - 7pm BST
Livio Partiti 15 Dicembre 2020. Libri: Il posto delle parole. OGGI Francesca Saggini “Il fantasm... more Livio Partiti 15 Dicembre 2020. Libri: Il posto delle parole.
OGGI
Francesca Saggini “Il fantasma in salotto"
Intervista radiofonica
10 novembre 2020 Università degli Studi di Chieti Evento online
Evento in streaming Urbinoise - Noir e paesaggio sonoro Nell’anno internazionale del suono, URB... more Evento in streaming
Urbinoise - Noir e paesaggio sonoro
Nell’anno internazionale del suono, URBINOIR si interroga su suoni, rumori, voci e silenzi del noir
Questa edizione è rivolta a tutti gli appassionati di noir, di paesaggio sonoro, agli studenti universitari e alle scuole superiori (docenti e studenti)
27 novembre streaming
Ore 9 Saluto del Magnifico Rettore
Ore 9.30 Alessandra Calanchi presenta: Breve storia di URBINOIR (ppt)
Ore 10 Gian Italo Bischi (Università di Urbino Carlo Bo) Horror silentii nel noir
Ore 10.30 Francesca Saggini (Università della Tuscia) Il paesaggio sonoro di Frankenstein. Un’ipotesi didattica
Ore 11.30 Luigi Tassoni (Università di Pécs) Simenon noir: il rumore della mente e i suoni della narrazione
Ore 12.30 Discussione e chiusura dei lavori
Glasgow Theatre Seminar, University of Glasgow. 16 January 2020
Presentazione del libro "Lady Frankenstein e l'orrenda progenie". 22 maggio 2019, Biblioteca dell... more Presentazione del libro "Lady Frankenstein e l'orrenda progenie". 22 maggio 2019, Biblioteca dell'Universita' degli Studi della Tuscia a Viterbo.
"Old landscapes, new eyes: Frances Burney and Romanticism". Waok in Progress talk at IASH, Edinbu... more "Old landscapes, new eyes: Frances Burney and Romanticism". Waok in Progress talk at IASH, Edinburgh (UK). May 2, 2019.
All'interno dell'evento Frankenread@DISTU ho dialogato con il dott. Giovanni Montemari, Chirurgia... more All'interno dell'evento Frankenread@DISTU ho dialogato con il dott. Giovanni Montemari, Chirurgia Plastica e Ricostruttiva, ASL Viterbo (Ospedale Belcolle). 31 ottobre 2018. Aula Magna San Carlo, Dipartimento DISTU, Viterbo.
Anna Enrichetta Soccio in conversazione con Francesca Saggini. Aula Magna di Ateneo, Università ... more Anna Enrichetta Soccio in conversazione con Francesca Saggini.
Aula Magna di Ateneo, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, 24 settembre 2018, h. 10.
Organizzatrice: prof. Ines Delfino.
European Romantic Review, 2019
REVIEW Harvester of Hearts: Motherhood under the Sign of Frankenstein, by Rachel Feder, Evanston,... more REVIEW
Harvester of Hearts: Motherhood under the Sign of Frankenstein, by Rachel Feder, Evanston, IL, Northwestern UP, 2018, xvi + 175 pp.The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology, by Mark A. McCutcheon, Edmonton, AB, Athabasca UP, 2018, xi + 234 pp.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), May 10, 2023
Open Research Europe
This essay explores the character of Cerulia in Frances Burney’s dramatic play, Hubert de Vere, c... more This essay explores the character of Cerulia in Frances Burney’s dramatic play, Hubert de Vere, composed and revised in the 1790s, yet never published or staged in Burney’s lifetime. Cerulia seems to eschew any easy dramatic categorization, as she cannot be identified with the heroine of the play. Undeniably, she is a victim, but of whom/what, we may wonder? Does attempting to define the nature of the hamartia of which Cerulia remains victim lead the “ideal” reader/viewer toward either fate/the gods or, rather, social apparatuses? And, finally, what about the eponymous protagonist Hubert de Vere? Is it correct to identify de Vere as the actant “hero”, or perhaps as per the sub-category “villain hero” so popular in late eighteenth-century dramas? Burney’s adroit exploitation of tropology and literary allusion in Hubert de Vere will be at the centre of this essay. In particular, I will examine the last act of the play, where the themes of confinement, imprisonment, and escape take on ...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Sep 15, 2022
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jun 29, 2022
Rivista Di Letterature Moderne E Comparate, 2005
Springer eBooks, 2022
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this p... more The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2012
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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Apr 26, 2022
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Oct 5, 2020
Quando il chiarore si attenua e si attraversa una soglia, eccoci entrare nella dimensione del Fan... more Quando il chiarore si attenua e si attraversa una soglia, eccoci entrare nella dimensione del Fantastico, dove la luce si sposa all'ombra e il mondo ci appare ancora simile, eppure infinitamente diverso. Secolo fecondo come nessuno nell'invenzione di questi 'contro-mondi', l'Ottocento fantastico in lingua inglese viene esplorato in questo lavoro, che affianca alla traduzione di dieci racconti esemplari scelti tra Stati Uniti, Inghilterra, Scozia e Galles un'interpretazione puntuale e una serie di rimandi capaci di offrire nuovi e inaspettati approcci al genere. Penetriamo cosi il magmatico vortice editoriale vittoriano, fatto di leggende popolari, occultismo, misteri, esoterismi, spiriti inquieti e creature soprannaturali. Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens entrano si in scena nella ricostruzione di Francesca Saggini, ma solo come comparse d'un vasto palcoscenico editoriale alternativo e popolarissimo, i cui veri protagonisti sono fantasmi, licantropi, vampiri, doppi persecutori, amanti demoniaci, mummie assassine, ibridi umani orrifici.
The Bars Review, Feb 17, 2015
In the 1790s, John Boydell assembled what is now a famous collection of paintings of Shakespearia... more In the 1790s, John Boydell assembled what is now a famous collection of paintings of Shakespearian scenes to accompany an illustrated edition of the works. Paintings in Boydell's collection were added, rearranged, removed, retouched, and altered according to prevailing tastes. The 'volatile, fragmentary nature' (5) of the Boydell project suggests an inherent instability to Romantic Shakespeare. In a wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of essays, Joseph M. Ortiz assembles a wealth of evidence to unsettle the image of 'a Romantic culture drunk on the liquor of Bardolatry' (7). Through twelve essays, contributors successfully demonstrate that what 'Shakespeare' means is 'hardly more stable in the Romantic period than at any other time' (7). Covering directors, actors, writers, philosophers, gallery owners, entrepreneurs, and (notably) a number of women authors, this collection complicates the concept of 'Romantic Shakespeare' by bringing in new voices and reexamining the old ones. The result is a complementary supplement to Jonathan Bate's Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination (Oxford, 1986). Furthermore, this volume extends its range to contend that debates over art and drama more generally were influenced by visual and theatrical depictions of Shakespeare in the nineteenth century. Contributors show that rather than a monolithic 'genius,' Shakespeare was 'a powerful medium' for writers of various political persuasions, both male and female, Whig and Tory, to 'claim authority for their particular interests' (3). In order to make this overall argument, Ortiz assembles a highly respectable cadre of international authors into four categories organized around the critic, the poet, the theater, and the marketplace. Part I, 'Rethinking the Romantic Critic,' supplements Romantic critic William Hazlitt, whose views are usually taken as representative of the period. In the lead essay of this section, David Chandler focusses on Walter Savage Landor's Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare (1834) to illustrate the political possibilities of Romantic Shakespeare criticism in the period. Likewise, Karen Bloom Gevirtz adds Elizabeth Inchbald to the mix, particularly her role as an actress and playwright who contributed a woman's perspective to Romantic Shakespeare criticism. Along similar lines, Karen Britland examines the Romantic idea of 'genius' in connection with Sarah Siddons's performance of Ophelia to argue that earlier uses of the term in connection with Ophelia reveal a later nineteenth-century campaign to downplay Ophelia's intelligence in favor of a masculine association with the concept of genius. The second part, 'Shakespeare and the Making of the Romantic Poet,' expands the conversation to reconsider canonical writers such as Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, and Keats, and to include lesser-known writers. Thomas Festa argues that reception of Shakespeare 'becomes an enabling-or better, an "authorizing"-condition of Wordsworth's poetic imagination' (79). Joy Currie looks at the poetry of Charlotte Smith, who used Shakespeare to support her own political views, but also to claim equality for women writers. Another woman writer, American poet Emily Dickinson, is the subject of Marianne Noble's excellent essay, which looks at Dickinson's emulation of Shakespeare's 'mingling of sound and sense' (9). Part III, 'The Romantic Stage,' focusses on Romantic playwrights and theatre productions of Shakespeare. Paola Degli Esposti argues that Coleridge's play Zapolya, based on The Winter's Tale and Cymbeline, entails a larger political commentary where Shakespeare lends a universality to ideas of historical truth. Another little-discussed play, James Boaden's The BARS Review, No. 45 (Spring 2015) Fontainville Forest (1794), based on Ann Radcliffe's novel The Romance of the Forest, is the topic of Francesca Saggini's essay. Saggini argues that Boaden's use of a stage ghost invokes Romantic visual depictions of Shakespeare's works. Suddhaseel Sen examines Ambroise Thomas's French opera Hamlet as a response to debates about neoclassical aesthetics, in a fitting conclusion to one of the more original sections of this volume. Part IV, 'Harnessing the Renaissance: Markets, Religion, Politics' moves beyond literature to discuss the influence of Shakespeare on Romantic culture and ideas of history more generally. Ann R. Hawkins's fascinating essay on the Boydell Gallery shows that the collection was actually in flux throughout most of its fifteen-year period, and that the gallery itself adapted to changing public taste. Marjean D. Purinton and Marliss C. Desens combine analysis of Pericles with Scottish dramatist Joanna Baillie's sacred dramas The Martyr (1812) and The Bride (1826), using ideas of the feminine sacred from Catherine Clèment and Julia Kristeva. The final essay in this collection, Leigh Wetherall-Dickson's 'A Written Warning: Lady Caroline Lamb, Noblesse Oblige, and Works of John Ford', departs from the volume's focus on Shakespeare, arguing that Lady Caroline Lamb's Gothic novel Glenarvon relies on Ford's work for political arguments. An extensive bibliography further underscores this volume's place as a significant contribution to nineteenth-century studies of Shakespeare. In his introduction, Ortiz notes that this collection owes a debt to the late Douglas A. Brooks, who initially solicited the essays for a volume on Shakespeare and Romanticism, but did not live to see the project to fruition. The persuasive result of Ortiz's labors is a fitting tribute to the project's initial genesis.
European Romantic Review, Mar 4, 2023
Rivista Di Letterature Moderne E Comparate, 2003
On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Transmedia Creature... more On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures presents studies of Frankenstein by international scholars from converging disciplines such as humanities, musicology, film studies, television studies, English and digital humanities. These innovative contributions investigate the afterlives of a novel taught in a disparate array of courses - Frankenstein disturbs and transcends boundaries, be they political, ethical, theological, aesthetic, and not least of media, ensuring its vibrant presence in contemporary popular culture. Transmedia Creatures highlights how cultural content is redistributed through multiple media, forms and modes of production (including user-generated ones from “below”) that often appear synchronously and dismantle and renew established readings of the text, while at the same time incorporating and revitalizing aspects that have always been central to it. The authors engage with concepts, value systems and aesthetic-moral categories—among them the family, horror, monstrosity, diversity, education, risk, technology, the body—from a variety of contemporary approaches and highly original perspectives, which yields new connections. Ultimately, Frankenstein, as evidenced by this collection, is paradoxically enriched by the heteroglossia of preconceptions, misreadings, and overreadings that attend it, and that reveal the complex interweaving of perceptions and responses it generates. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/bucknell-press/1010/thumbnail.jp
Background Preterm delivery, de ned as delivery occurring before a gestational age of 37 weeks, r... more Background Preterm delivery, de ned as delivery occurring before a gestational age of 37 weeks, represents 6-10% of all births in developed countries. Preterm infants are characterized by a short prenatal development period and are at an increased risk of systemic disorders as a result of their immaturity. Few studies have analyzed oral alterations among preterm infants. This systematic review examines the orofacial characteristics most commonly found among preterm infants versus infants born at term and evaluates their repercussions upon oral health and quality of life. Methods The search was limited to articles published in English or Spanish that compared orofacial characteristics of preterm infants versus infants born at term. Their methodological quality was assessed based on the guidelines of the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI). Results Most of the studies found the prevalence of structural enamel defects of the primary dentition to be greater among preterm infants. Other disorders such as structural enamel defects of the permanent dentition, caries, malocclusions or alterations in dental composition, size and development also appeared to be more frequent among preterm infants, though the supporting evidence was weak. Conclusions Further studies are needed, analyzing the association between preterm delivery and certain orofacial disorders such as caries, malocclusions and dental anomalies. Background The World Health Organization (WHO) de nes preterm delivery as delivery occurring before a gestational age of 37 weeks. Approximately one-quarter of all premature deliveries are induced because of medical conditions that pose a health risk for the fetus, mother, or both. The rest of preterm deliveries are spontaneous (1-6). Preterm delivery is associated with a number of genetic, socioeconomic and ethnic factors, as well as with stress and smoking and alcohol abuse during pregnancy, maternal age, weight and height, multiple pregnancies, a history of maternal periodontal disease, arterial hypertension or preeclampsia, and a history of premature deliveries (7-15). Causes of preterm delivery related to the fetus include congenital malformations, restricted intrauterine growth, or intrauterine infections (16, 17). Improvements in medical care have resulted in a decrease in mortality among preterm infants. This evidences the importance of developing studies and care programs targeted to this population (18-21). Many preterm infants survive with physical and/or psychological sequelae, including respiratory distress syndrome, cardiac and renal disorders, increased susceptibility to infections, necrotizing enterocolitis, and metabolic, nutritional and neurological disorders, among other problems (22-32) These complications often require invasive interventions and treatments such as orotracheal intubation or parenteral nutrition (33).