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Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) has had an enduring and widespread impact, becoming a unive... more Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) has had an enduring and widespread impact, becoming a universal myth. This volume offers various approaches to the rewriting of the desert(ed) island myth of the novel. Its originality comes from the time range covered, as its focus ranges from medieval proto-Robinsonades to twentieth-century cinematic adaptations. It begins with an exploration of Robinsonades written before Robinson Crusoe, prompting discussion about the label "Robinsonade" and why critics have seen Defoe's narrative as the hypotext of the genre.Robinson Crusoe can only be understood in the context of the imperial expansion of Britain in the 18th century and the rise of capitalism, but Robinsonades adapt to the audiences they address. At the turn of the 19th century, despite the changing context and the increasingly unrealistic claim that one could be stranded on a desert island fertile enough for rebuilding a new life and civilization, the myth of Robinson resurfaced in R. L. Stevenson's and Joseph Conrad's fictions. The 19th century was also marked by industrial revolution, progress and scientism, and the authors who wrote Robinsonades at that period witnessed how those developments changed the world. The text includes a discussion of Jules Verne's work as a critical perspective on colonial narratives, and deals with transmedial and transgeneric approaches, analysing the bridges and comparisons between the depictions of such narratives in literature, cinema, and television. Finally, the volume proposes a topical approach to the genre by focusing on the link between literature and the environment, and how the Robinsonade can awaken people's consciences and help make a difference in the world. Bearing in mind the idea that Robinsonades can be wake-up calls, the epilogue of this volume offers a very original comparison between the Robinsonade and the political situation in Great Britain regarding Europe.
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L'écriture de l'Histoire par un auteur prolifique comme Defoe reflète les mutations épistémologiq... more L'écriture de l'Histoire par un auteur prolifique comme Defoe reflète les mutations épistémologiques de son époque. Présent sur tous les fronts en étant à la fois espion au service du gouvernement, journaliste et écrivain, Defoe a véritablement pris part à l'histoire de la Grande-Bretagne. Il est indissociablement lié à l'Union anglo-écossaise qu'il étudie dans ses textes historiques, ses écrits journalistiques, ses pamphlets, sa correspondance et ses poèmes. Son implication dans les évènements qu'il relate lui accorde le statut d'observateur-participant de l'Histoire qu'il écrit. Son historiographie s'étend au delà de l'Histoire britannique : Defoe s'attache aussi à écrire l'Histoire du monde invisible dans plusieurs traités sur le surnaturel et la démonologie, ainsi que l'Histoire des petites gens, ce qui donne à son historiographie un caractère populaire, permettant d'observer le glissement de l'Histoire au roman (novel), qui naît du caractère évolutif du discours de l'Histoire.
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L’écriture de l’histoire que Defoe livre dans ses écrits concerne à la fois l’Histoire avec un H ... more L’écriture de l’histoire que Defoe livre dans ses écrits concerne à la fois l’Histoire avec un H majuscule, dans la mesure où il s’intéresse à l’événement historique, au fait réel et vérifiable, et l’histoire avec un h minuscule, celles des petites gens, de la vie quotidienne. Le sujet de la piraterie se situe au carrefour de ces deux acceptions de l’histoire/Histoire, puisqu’il s’agit de raconter la vie de criminels, de personnages exclus de la société par leur statut, mais qu’en même temps, les pirates que le lecteur de Defoe découvre sont en quelque sorte les Princes des pirates, avec de grands noms de la piraterie comme Avery ou Kidd, ce qui permet de lire ces histoires de pirates comme une autre version de l’Histoire. La piraterie se présente ainsi comme une contre-histoire et c’est en ce sens qu’elle peut être entendue comme une lecture particulière de l’Histoire. Cette étude s’intéresse au fonctionnement de la piraterie chez Daniel Defoe, c’est-à-dire à la façon dont Defoe, écrivain hack fasciné par les pirates, détourne le genre historique pour écrire une histoire des parias, des laissés-pour-compte de la société, et donc de l’Histoire.
The history Defoe wrote about in his various texts was at the same time History with a capital H, for he was interested in historical events and real facts, and history with a small h, that of everyday life and common people. Piracy is situated at the crossroads of these two acceptions of history/History, as it means narrating the lives of criminals, of outcasts excluded from society because of their status. But at the same time, the pirates that Defoe’s reader discovers in his books are in a way the Princes of pirates, with such famous pirates as Avery or Kidd, which leads us to read these stories as another version of History. Piracy is presented as an alternative history and can thus be considered as a particular reading of History. This article analyses the modalities of representation of piracy in Defoe’s work, in the way Defoe, a hack writer apparently fascinated by pirates, used and parodied the historical genre to write a story of pariahs, of those who were excluded from society, and hence from History.
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The Tour thro’ the whole Island of Great-Britain (1724-25-26) is a domestic travel narrative, wri... more The Tour thro’ the whole Island of Great-Britain (1724-25-26) is a domestic travel narrative, written in the form of thirteen letters that describe a region of Great-Britain each and Defoe uses different tools in order to think and represent the English space, one of which being the map – real or narrative. This chapter wants to show how Defoe, a lifelong student of geography, manages to narrate the English space through cartography, chorography and fiction, and what this intermingling between geographic and literary tools bring to his travel account. Indeed, it is through his geographical imagination that Defoe manages to give the most graphic contemporary account of the state of Great-Britain in the first part of the eighteenth century. Like many others of his texts, Defoe’s Tour is full of lists, tables, figures and very accurate descriptions; it has even been considered as “a mere storebin of data” by Terence Bowers . The traveller-writer is afraid of the void, a bit like cartographers at the time, who filled in the blanks of their maps by ferocious beasts or by fish. This survey of Great-Britain is exhaustive as can be seen in the abundance of toponyms, but also in the tables, sketches or maps inserted in the text. All these elements borrowed from cartography or geography help Defoe give a visual representation of his ideas when his written descriptions are not enough. His use of cartography is part of a larger representational strategy, as it brings authority and authenticity to his text, and he goes even further by using narration in order to map England. Not only does Defoe display an expert’s ability to put into practice the procedures of map reading and construction, but he also creates narrative maps. After having analysed the Tour as a map in the first section to see if Defoe can be considered as a geographer or, as Christopher Parkes puts it, as “a mere dabbler in the field of geography” , this chapter will focus on the interconnectedness between geography and literature and on the literariness of the Tour, analysing how space is text and how Defoe stages space in his narrative maps (“mise en scène”) using metaphors and other narrative and thematic tools. This chapter will end on a reflection on mapping and writing as acts of power ( in so far as they are part of a process of appropriation of space in order to promote it economically and geopolitically) making Defoe the architect of the modern Great-Britain.
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L'ampleur des changements environnementaux est aujourd’hui bien établie. Face à cette situation i... more L'ampleur des changements environnementaux est aujourd’hui bien établie. Face à cette situation inédite dans l’histoire de l’humanité, quels « cadres » et catégories mobiliser pour penser ces bouleversements et guider l’action ?
La mise en évidence de l’origine humaine de ces changements et la critique du dualisme Nature/Culture ont conduit à souligner les limites d’approches strictement scientifiques et techniques. C’est pourquoi le présent guide propose un état inédit et original des savoirs des Lettres et Sciences Humaines et Sociales sur la nature. Il rassemble les travaux de spécialistes (civilisation, ethnologie, géographie, histoire, littérature, philosophie, psychologie, sociologie, science politique, urbanisme…) afin de montrer comment l’idée de nature, dans les défis qu’elle adresse aux sociétés contemporaines, reconfigure les cadres de pensée, les disciplines et leurs objets pour produire de nouveaux champs de questionnements et de pratiques qui marquent l’émergence des Humanités environnementales.
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In a period marked by the Spatial Turn, time is not the main category of analysis any longer. Spa... more In a period marked by the Spatial Turn, time is not the main category of analysis any longer. Space is. It is now considered as a central metaphor and topos in literature, and literary criticism has seized space as a new tool. Similarly, literature turns out to be an ideal field for geography. This book examines the cross-fertilization of geography and literature as disciplines, languages and methodologies.
In the past two decades, several methods of analysis focusing on the relationship and interconnectedness between literature and geography have flourished. Literary cartography, literary geography and geocriticism (Westphal, 2007, and Tally, 2011) have their specificities, but they all agree upon the omnipresence of space, place and mapping at the core of analysis. Other approaches like ecocriticism (Buell, 2001, and Garrard, 2004), geopoetics (White, 1994), geography of literature (Moretti, 2000), studies of the inserted map (Ljunberg ,2012, and Pristnall and Cooper, 2011) and narrative cartography have likewise drawn attention to space.
Literature and Geography: The Writing of Space Throughout History, following an international conference in Lyon bringing together literary academics, geographers, cartographers and architects in order to discuss literature and geography as two practices of space, shows that literature, along with geography, is perfectly valid to account for space. Suggestions are offered here from all disciplines on how to take into account representations and discourses since texts, including literary ones, have become increasingly present in the analysis of geographers.
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Call for papers for an international conferences on "300 years of Robinsonades", Lyon 3, 11-12 av... more Call for papers for an international conferences on "300 years of Robinsonades", Lyon 3, 11-12 avril 2019
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The history Defoe wrote about in his various texts was at the same time History with a capital H, for he was interested in historical events and real facts, and history with a small h, that of everyday life and common people. Piracy is situated at the crossroads of these two acceptions of history/History, as it means narrating the lives of criminals, of outcasts excluded from society because of their status. But at the same time, the pirates that Defoe’s reader discovers in his books are in a way the Princes of pirates, with such famous pirates as Avery or Kidd, which leads us to read these stories as another version of History. Piracy is presented as an alternative history and can thus be considered as a particular reading of History. This article analyses the modalities of representation of piracy in Defoe’s work, in the way Defoe, a hack writer apparently fascinated by pirates, used and parodied the historical genre to write a story of pariahs, of those who were excluded from society, and hence from History.
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La mise en évidence de l’origine humaine de ces changements et la critique du dualisme Nature/Culture ont conduit à souligner les limites d’approches strictement scientifiques et techniques. C’est pourquoi le présent guide propose un état inédit et original des savoirs des Lettres et Sciences Humaines et Sociales sur la nature. Il rassemble les travaux de spécialistes (civilisation, ethnologie, géographie, histoire, littérature, philosophie, psychologie, sociologie, science politique, urbanisme…) afin de montrer comment l’idée de nature, dans les défis qu’elle adresse aux sociétés contemporaines, reconfigure les cadres de pensée, les disciplines et leurs objets pour produire de nouveaux champs de questionnements et de pratiques qui marquent l’émergence des Humanités environnementales.
In the past two decades, several methods of analysis focusing on the relationship and interconnectedness between literature and geography have flourished. Literary cartography, literary geography and geocriticism (Westphal, 2007, and Tally, 2011) have their specificities, but they all agree upon the omnipresence of space, place and mapping at the core of analysis. Other approaches like ecocriticism (Buell, 2001, and Garrard, 2004), geopoetics (White, 1994), geography of literature (Moretti, 2000), studies of the inserted map (Ljunberg ,2012, and Pristnall and Cooper, 2011) and narrative cartography have likewise drawn attention to space.
Literature and Geography: The Writing of Space Throughout History, following an international conference in Lyon bringing together literary academics, geographers, cartographers and architects in order to discuss literature and geography as two practices of space, shows that literature, along with geography, is perfectly valid to account for space. Suggestions are offered here from all disciplines on how to take into account representations and discourses since texts, including literary ones, have become increasingly present in the analysis of geographers.
Volume collectif - agrégation d'anglais by Emmanuelle Peraldo
Drafts by Emmanuelle Peraldo
The history Defoe wrote about in his various texts was at the same time History with a capital H, for he was interested in historical events and real facts, and history with a small h, that of everyday life and common people. Piracy is situated at the crossroads of these two acceptions of history/History, as it means narrating the lives of criminals, of outcasts excluded from society because of their status. But at the same time, the pirates that Defoe’s reader discovers in his books are in a way the Princes of pirates, with such famous pirates as Avery or Kidd, which leads us to read these stories as another version of History. Piracy is presented as an alternative history and can thus be considered as a particular reading of History. This article analyses the modalities of representation of piracy in Defoe’s work, in the way Defoe, a hack writer apparently fascinated by pirates, used and parodied the historical genre to write a story of pariahs, of those who were excluded from society, and hence from History.
La mise en évidence de l’origine humaine de ces changements et la critique du dualisme Nature/Culture ont conduit à souligner les limites d’approches strictement scientifiques et techniques. C’est pourquoi le présent guide propose un état inédit et original des savoirs des Lettres et Sciences Humaines et Sociales sur la nature. Il rassemble les travaux de spécialistes (civilisation, ethnologie, géographie, histoire, littérature, philosophie, psychologie, sociologie, science politique, urbanisme…) afin de montrer comment l’idée de nature, dans les défis qu’elle adresse aux sociétés contemporaines, reconfigure les cadres de pensée, les disciplines et leurs objets pour produire de nouveaux champs de questionnements et de pratiques qui marquent l’émergence des Humanités environnementales.
In the past two decades, several methods of analysis focusing on the relationship and interconnectedness between literature and geography have flourished. Literary cartography, literary geography and geocriticism (Westphal, 2007, and Tally, 2011) have their specificities, but they all agree upon the omnipresence of space, place and mapping at the core of analysis. Other approaches like ecocriticism (Buell, 2001, and Garrard, 2004), geopoetics (White, 1994), geography of literature (Moretti, 2000), studies of the inserted map (Ljunberg ,2012, and Pristnall and Cooper, 2011) and narrative cartography have likewise drawn attention to space.
Literature and Geography: The Writing of Space Throughout History, following an international conference in Lyon bringing together literary academics, geographers, cartographers and architects in order to discuss literature and geography as two practices of space, shows that literature, along with geography, is perfectly valid to account for space. Suggestions are offered here from all disciplines on how to take into account representations and discourses since texts, including literary ones, have become increasingly present in the analysis of geographers.