Miscellany & Actes de la journée Thomas Hardy (original) (raw)

2020

Abstract

The 69th volume of Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens is an issue that compiles eight spontaneous contributions from various fields of research. They compose its first section simply entitled Miscellany. This part features in no specific order the questioning of the heroic in Rider Haggard’s fiction, the way new sound technology fashioned Tennyson’s poetry, love relationships in Tasma’s antipodal fiction, Walter Pater’s dark aestheticism on the one hand and his consideration of old age on the other, the exotic eroticism pervading Daniel Deronda, the mystical ecstasy in Christina Rossetti’s poetry, and the construction of mid-Victorian suburban fiction. The second section is composed of seven contributions by Hardy specialists who attended the annual conference in Lyon in 2007. This part starts with Hardy’s now proverbial “moments of vision” where the woman, object of the male gaze, dissolves the screen and allows a new mode of writing to emerge; it is followed by Hardy’s poetics of s...

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