Nanette O'Brien
University of Hull, English Literature, Faculty Member
- Modernist Literature (Literary Modernism), Food Culture and Literature, Ford Madox Ford, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Material Culture Studies, and 19 moreCultural History, Art History, Life-writing, Visual Culture, Visual Studies, Bloomsbury Group, Photography, Self and Identity, Life Writing (Literature), W.G. Sebald (Area Studies), Aesthetics, Modernism, The Modern Interior, Walter Benjamin, Modern Art, Modernism (Art History), Paul Cezanne, Roger Fry, and Biography and Life-Writingedit
- In 2018 I completed my DPhil at the University of Oxford; my monograph is now out with Oxford University Press: https... moreIn 2018 I completed my DPhil at the University of Oxford; my monograph is now out with Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/food-and-culture-in-the-works-of-ford-madox-ford-gertrude-stein-and-virginia-woolf-9780198871729?edit
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Ford Madox Ford's food writing in popular and glossy magazines forms an important, if neglected, part of his literary legacy. I argue in this essay that his writing in these periodicals, largely from the period 1920-1939, constitute part... more
Ford Madox Ford's food writing in popular and glossy magazines forms an important, if neglected, part of his literary legacy. I argue in this essay that his writing in these periodicals, largely from the period 1920-1939, constitute part of a broader body of work experimenting with the rhythms, variations, substitutions and repetitions of both culinary labour and his Impressionist prose. Allowing him to reach a wide audience, and part of a tradition of modernist writing in popular magazines, Ford's writing and food experiences are both sublime and ordinary, gesturing to how food makes such expansion and daily transformations possible.
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The 18th century gastronomer Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin is a common interest for both Ford Madox Ford and Gertrude Stein's modernist projects. This essay is especially interested in how food writing, culinary work, and sensations like... more
The 18th century gastronomer Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin is a common interest for both Ford Madox Ford and Gertrude Stein's modernist projects. This essay is especially interested in how food writing, culinary work, and sensations like taste, a theory of which Brillat-Savarin developed, can influence other senses as explored by modernist writers. Stein and Ford’s historicist approach to writing and thinking about civilization, especially about food culture, can be understood in the context of their appreciation for Brillat-Savarin.
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Foreword to selected papers from the Oxford Graduate Conference on "Progress" held on 3rd June 2016, Faculty of English, University of Oxford. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1WzZD8N6oNLYlRMcFVFMkEyck0/view Conference website:... more
Foreword to selected papers from the Oxford Graduate Conference on "Progress" held on 3rd June 2016, Faculty of English, University of Oxford. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1WzZD8N6oNLYlRMcFVFMkEyck0/view Conference website: https://progressconference.wordpress.com
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This paper examines the disorientation encountered in the use of reproduced images and construction of the self in fictional autobiography. Texts include Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, W. G. Sebald's The Rings of... more
This paper examines the disorientation encountered in the use of reproduced images and construction of the self in fictional autobiography. Texts include Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn, and E. V. Lucas and George Morrow's What a Life!. Full text here: http://www.stetjournal.org/past-issues/disorientation/obrien/
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Through a one-day conference entitled ‘After-Image: Life-Writing and Celebrity,’ we want to consider the interplay between celebrity and life-writing. The conference will explore ideas of image, persona and self-fashioning in an... more
Through a one-day conference entitled ‘After-Image: Life-Writing and Celebrity,’ we want to consider the interplay between celebrity and life-writing. The conference will explore ideas of image, persona and self-fashioning in an historical as well as a contemporary context and the role these concepts play in the writing of lives.
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Psychology, American Studies, and 22 moreMedia Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Popular Culture, Celebrity Culture, Political History, Creative Non-Fiction, 17th-Century Studies, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, Film History, 18th & 19th Centuries, 19th Century (History), 19th-Century American Literature, 20th Century, 19th Century British (Literature), Life Writing (Literature), Mass media, Stardom and Celebrity, Biography and Life-Writing, Celebrity, Celebrity Studies, and Royalty
This one day conference explored themes of progress in literature and literary criticism. The programme can be viewed here: https://progressconference.wordpress.com/programme/ Special thanks to the Progress Conference committee:... more
This one day conference explored themes of progress in literature and literary criticism. The programme can be viewed here: https://progressconference.wordpress.com/programme/
Special thanks to the Progress Conference committee: https://progressconference.wordpress.com/about/conference-committee/
Select papers from the conference are published in Oxford Research in English, Issue 4, 2016: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1WzZD8N6oNLYlRMcFVFMkEyck0/view
Special thanks to the Progress Conference committee: https://progressconference.wordpress.com/about/conference-committee/
Select papers from the conference are published in Oxford Research in English, Issue 4, 2016: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1WzZD8N6oNLYlRMcFVFMkEyck0/view
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Programme for the conference held at Oxford on 19 September 2015
Further details available here: https://afterimage2015.wordpress.com
Further details available here: https://afterimage2015.wordpress.com
Research Interests: American Literature, American History, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Celebrity Culture, and 12 moreAmerican Culture, Eighteenth-Century British History and Culture, Political History, Modernist Literature (Literary Modernism), Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, 20th century (History), Modernism, 19th Century (History), 20th Century British Literature, Life Writing (Literature), Stardom and Celebrity, and Biography and Life-Writing
Review of Clara Jones, Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist (2016) in Women: A Cultural Review, Vol 28 (2017), Issue 1-2,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2017.1327755
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2017.1327755
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Concentrating on the transatlantic work of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf, my monograph explores and challenges modernist uses of the terms 'civilization' and 'barbarism' with regards to foodways and food cultures,... more
Concentrating on the transatlantic work of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf, my monograph explores and challenges modernist uses of the terms 'civilization' and 'barbarism' with regards to foodways and food cultures, showing how these concepts are shaped by the rules of preparing and eating food in literature and in public.