Études anglaises

Articles MICHEL IMBERTLe Dernier des Mohicans ou le ré-enchantement des signes YANNICKE CHUPINFalling Man, ou les vertus de la lecture spiralée de l'événement historique GUYONNE LEDUCLetters and Letter-Writing in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (1811) ÉLISE MIGNOTIntegrated relative clauses with indefinite antecedents: sub-categorization or joint categorization FRÉDÉRIC HERRMANNThe Glorious Revolution...

Catherine BERNARD Writing Capital, or, John Lanchester's Debt to Realism John Lanchester's fourth novel Capital (2012) offers a scathing, satirical denun- ciation of the excesses of capitalism, commodity fetishism and globalisation. The choral structure of the novel also allows the text to function as a world-novel, embracing as it does...

Agnès DERAIL-IMBERTÉros et Arès : les enfants de la guerre dans Billy Budd, Sailor de Melville Cette étude se propose de lire Billy Budd, Sailor comme une fable juridique qui dramatise, dans un double contexte de guerre et de mutinerie, le conflit entre la violence d'une innocence exceptionnelle (Billy) et...

Natalie ROULON Music and Gender in All's Well That Ends WellAll’s Well That Ends Well may not be the most musical of Shakespeare’s works, but the music performed or referred to in the play is important in that it contributes to constructing the strict gender divide which prevailed in the...

Marie-Françoise ALAMICHEL : "This wyde world, which that men seye is round": Movement and Meaning in The Franklin's TaleGisèle VENET : More “flies in amber”? or, of Topicalities, Dictionaries and Poetics in Love's Labour's LostAlexandra POULAIN : “False impression[s]”: Writing in The Importance of Being Earnest Marta DVORAK : “the...

Claire BOULARD-JOUSLIN : The making of public opinion in The Free-Thinker (1718-1721): from theory to practice Jean-Michel YVARD : « Oh you Materialist! » : oser publier On the Origin of Species Jason ALLEN : Le corps créole, fonction de la relation dans Drums and Colours de Derek Walcott Sandrine...

Claire VIAL : Clothing the debate: textiles, text-isles and the economy of gift-giving in four Middle English Breton lays Textiles, both as clothes and elements of the codified knightly costume, play a major structuring role in the Breton lays. Whether embodied in recurring poetic motives or staged in descriptive pauses,...

Jeremy ELPRIN"[T]he Life which was, as it were, already written": biographizing epistolary Keats If John Keats suspected he would be “among the English Poets” after his death, could he have imagined the multitude of biographical afterlives which would emerge from, and remain enveloped in, his private correspondence? In examining the...

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 ...