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Journée d'étude: Text, Image and Historical Interpretation

July 3, 2015
09:00

The interest in visual and material culture in the past is growing, as it provides valuable additional source material adding dimensions to our understanding beyond what can be grasped from written text. Illustrations can be read as paratextual, interpretive commentaries that reflect multifarious reading practices as well as mentalities. The study of book illustration in the past is driven by the interest in images as artefacts embedded in a system of representation, images as epistemological and historical documents, and images as sites of interpretation and critical response. This workshop will focus on book illustrations in British literature from the 18th till the mid 19th centuries.

The workshop is organized jointly by the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study (USIAS), the research unit Savoirs dans l'espace anglophone : représentations, culture, histoire (SEARCH) of the University of Strasbourg, and the Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture of Ghent University.

The event is open to all interested, registration is required. Please contact USIAS Fellow 2012 Sandro Jung for more information: Sandro.Jung@UGent.be

Programme
9:25 Introduction
9:40 Leigh DILLARD (University of North Georgia): “Illustrating for Posterity: Modes of Readership in the Eighteenth-Century Literary Marketplace”
10:20 Brigitte FRIANT-KESSLER (Université de Valenciennes, Calhiste EA4343/Illustr4tio): “Miniature Battlefields in Novels, Prints, and Political Caricature: Organic Interaction between Graphic Afterlives Parallel Illustrations”
11:00 Kwinten VAN DE WALLE (Ghent University): “Chapbook Illustrations of Jack the Giant Slayer”
11:40 Mark YATES (University of Salford): “Iconotexts and Intertexts in William Blake’s Songs of Innocence”
12:20 Marvin LANSVERK (University of Montana): “Colliding Words and Worlds: the Visual Wisdom of Blake’s Laocoön”
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Sandro JUNG (Ghent University, USIAS Fellow 2012): “The Romantic Illustrative Vignette: Bloomfield, Byron, Crabbe, and Thomas Stothard’s Designs for the Royal Engagement Pocket Atlas”
15:10 Hélène IBATA (Université de Strasbourg): “Byron’s Orient in book illustrations of the 1830s”
15:50 Maxime LEROY (Université de Haute-Alsace): “‘He looked like his illustration’: Pictoriality in Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities”
16:30 End

 

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