Études anglaises

Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs KAMATH : A cruel spoon in context: cutlery and conviviality in late medieval literature Indebted to Derek Brewer's "honor-group" theory, this essay explores how ideas of community and individuality found expression through depictions of spoon use in late medieval English and French texts. Guillaume de Digulleville's...

Pierre LURBE : "Those Fabulous Dragons Teeth": invented beginnings, lost causes and new beginnings in John Toland's Amyntor (1699) In the late 1690s, the Irish maverick John Toland (1670-1722) played a crucial role in the publication of a number of Republican works of the mid-seventeenth century. His editorial task led...

Jean RAIMOND : Robert Southey: an essay addict? "If I have many irons in the fire, one reason, therefore, is that there is a large pot to boil." Because he depended exclusively on his pen for his livelihood, Robert Southey found his most reliable source of income in periodical reviewing....

Pascal AQUIEN, Sale temps sur Amherst : de l'abstraction du réel au primat du signifiant Cet article s'interroge, à partir du concept d'abstraction, sur un poème d'Emily Dickinson, « An awful tempest mashed the air » (1861), dont la ...

Ann LECERCLE : Much virtue in the comma; your comma is the only p(e)acemaker: prolegomenon to Measure for Measure Measure for Measure (1604) is Shakespeare's last comedy: it juxts Othello and precedes—just—King Lear and Macbeth; it is also ...

Marie-Dominique GARNIER - Madeline Gins's Ors Poetica Or Reading "Critical Beach" (Helen Keller Or Arakawa, 1994) Except for an isolated attempt at translating one of Arakawa and Gins's early essays, To Not To Die (Pour ne pas mourir), the poetry ...

Charles Dickens in Twenty-First-Century India. A Study of the Novel Q & A by Vikas Swarup and its Film Adaptation by Danny Boyle Danny Boyle's film adaptation of Vikas Swarup's début novel Q & A, published in 2005 and released worldwide ...

Jean-Jacques LECERCLE - Après l'âge d'or : le récit policier britannique contemporain
entre nostalgie et hybridation Que se passe-t-il lorsqu'un genre survit à son âge d'or ? En s'appuyant sur des romans contemporains et sur des séries télévisées ...

Norbert WASZEK, An Essay on the History of Civil Society, d'Adam Ferguson : contextes et lignes de force La première partie de cet article vise à replacer l'essai de Ferguson dans le contexte des Lumières écossaises. Ce mouvement d'idées, dont ...

Aurélie THIRIA-MEULEMANS — « Science of feelings » : de la complémentarité entre science et poésie chez Wordsworth La posture anti-scientifique des poètes romantiques de la première génération en est presque la marque de fabrique, et Wordsworth ne ...

John S. BAK - "White Paper" and “Cahiers Noirs”: Williams's many Ur-Memoirs Why did Tennessee Williams write Memoirs after having claimed on several oc-casions that he would never produce an autobiography? One answer to this question lies in the ...

Claire GALLIEN - Recycling the Orient in Eighteenth-Century British Literature : The Case of Busiris by Edward Young Eighteenth-century pseudo-oriental fictions were determined by a process of literary recycling involving the salvaging, ...

Stéphane VANDERHAEGHE - Glossing Ben Marcus' Notable American Women (2002) What can one say in general of a text by Ben Marcus which would not already be somehow compromised by the radicalism of the writing? What can one say in particular of Notable ...