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Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls and the State of Exception by Lanone, Catherine

“…Pat Barker’s 2018 novel The Silence of the Girls revisits the Iliad to expose the unspoken tale of Briseis, Achilles’ captive. The novel explores Achilles’…”
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Exploiting Body and Place in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Lanone, Catherine

“…Drawing upon Annie Escuret’s epistemocritical method of reading, and on her vision of energy and entropy, this paper considers how, in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of…”
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Rethinking Relationality: E.M. Forster’s Commitment to Democracy by Lanone, Catherine

“…This paper explores Forster’s reticent ‘two cheers for democracy’, not as an inconsistent mischievous provocation, but as the sign of a lifelong engagement…”
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Victorian and Edwardian Virtual Reality: from Stoker to Forster by Lanone, Catherine

“…Fantasies of global transmission haunted the Victorian era, as demonstrated by one of George Du Maurier’s cartoons. Dracula engages with transmission in a dual…”
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Ebc, the SEAC, or New Directions in English Studies by Lanone, Catherine

“…This piece is an evocation of the Ebc odyssey, from its creation in the 1990s, along with the SEAC. It is a tribute to the colleagues whose work and enduring…”
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La traversée fantôme : Ghost Milk de Iain Sinclair by Lanone, Catherine

“…In Ghost Milk, published on the eve of the London Olympics in 2011, Iain Sinclair goes against public consensus to defend the post-industrial East-End,…”
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How fused our impressions are » : Virginia Woolf, John Keats et la couleur des mots by Catherine Lanone

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‘Only Connect’: Textual Space as Coherer in Tom McCarthy’s C by Lanone, Catherine

“…This paper deals with the way in which Tom McCarthy engages with the representation of flat landscapes in his recent novel C. Serge, the protagonist, sees the…”
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(Dis)figuring Rebellion: Wilfred Owen and the Legacy of Outrage by Lanone, Catherine

“…World War One was an age of Outrage for writers confronted with slaughter on an absurd scale. Using Owen’s manuscripts and trauma theory, this paper shows how…”
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Virginia Woolf ou l’opacité de la transparence by Lanone, Catherine

“…Woolf is fascinated with gossamer veils and diaphanous textures, turning semi-transparency into a concept, a metaphor for phenomenological consciousness and…”
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Pukka English and the Language of the Other in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India by Lanone, Catherine

“…A Passage to India differs from Kipling’s luscious use of Indian words or Conrad’s creativity; while Kipling’s Kim returns to the vernacular as a mother-tongue…”
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“Toujours la porcelaine”: George Meredith and the Willow Pattern by Lanone, Catherine

“…An iconic emblem of the Victorian fascination for domestic objects with an exotic tang, the “willow pattern” reveals the problematic nature of the circulation…”
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And in the sky, the dead and dancing sky, there are a million yesterdays » : l’horizon du passé dans City of the Mind de Penelope Lively by Lanone, Catherine

“…In City of the Mind, Penelope Lively probes into spatial and temporal horizons as she revisits the topos of the city of London as palimpsest. The protagonist,…”
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The Mystery of “those icy climes” (Shelley 269): Literature, Science and Early Nineteenth-century Polar Exploration by Catherine Lanone

“…Nineteenth-century science probed into the mystery of ice, from the structure of snowflakes to glaciers to Polar exploration. Literature reflects this attempt…”
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Recent British Literature: Concluding panel of the 2015 SEAC conference by Guignery, Vanessa, Lanone, Catherine, Rumsey, Lacy

“…The texts here gathered continue the tradition of the panels which conclude the yearly conferences of the Société d’Études Anglaises Contemporaines. This year,…”
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Mechanical Birds and Shapes of Ice: Hardy’s Vision of the ‘Blind Watchmaker by Lanone, Catherine

“…Gillian Beer has shown that the Darwinian plot radically changed the way the world was perceived, hence the way literature was written. Symbols and metaphors…”
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Entre poésie et fiction : Tess ou l'écriture syncopée de Thomas Hardy by Catherine Lanone

“…Thomas Hardy's poems and novels are closely intertwined through a system of echoes, which suggests that rather than two entirely different modes of writing,…”
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“I have long wanted to meet you”: Elsewhere as Construct in E.M. Forster's A Passage to India by Catherine Lanone

“…Through close friendships with a Moslem student and a Hindu Maharadja, E.M. Forster had access to an India which allowed him to challenge Anglo-Indian…”
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But in that room, in that presence, I was invertebrate » : la peur de l’autre dans The Beetle de Richard Marsh by Catherine Lanone

“…Published in 1897, The Beetle by Richard Marsh was a great fin-de-siècle success which once rivalled the now arch-famous Dracula. Although it has almost sunk…”
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Aspects of the Novel, or E.M. Forster’s (In)formal Criticism by Catherine Lanone

“…First conceived as a series of lectures, Aspects of the Novel has become a classic critical text while being systematically disparaged as old-fashioned…”
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