Cross-Cultural Encounters between the Mediterranean and the English-Speaking Worlds

Christine Reynier is Professor of English Literature at the University Montpellier III. She has published extensively on modernist writers; her latest book is Virginia Woolf’s Ethics of the Short Story (2009). With Marie-Eve Therenthy, she has created the seminar Les Médiateurs de la Méditerranée, and edited Les Ecrivains anglo-américains et la Méditerranée (2010).

• Contents: Christine Reynier: Introduction – Marc Smith: Importing Masters and Culture: Or Why Create the Art Market? – Guillaume Tanguy: The Museum and the Mosaic: Anti-Mythology or Counter-Mythology in Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country (1913)? – Vincent Dussol: Ed Dorn, an American Heretic in Languedoc – Fabienne Couécou: Ford Madox Ford’s England and the English: The Language of the Troubadours or Englishness Revisited – Jonathan Pollock: Lucretius, Bruno and Finnegans Wake – Claire Hélie: Basil Bunting’s Briggflatts (1965) and Lucretius’s The Nature of the Universe (1st c. B.C.): Transposing Mediterranean Contents into Northern Forms – Justine Gonneaud: The Myth of the Androgynous in Jeanette Winterson’s The.PowerBook – Jean-Michel Ganteau: Mediterranean Englishness: Another Progress of Romance – Marie-Christine Rochmann: Louis-Xavier Eyma, Reader of George Catlin – Catherine Delyfer: New Woman Fiction, Gender and Empire: Egyptian Encounters and Subversions in Marie Corelli’s Ziska (1896) and Victoria Cross’s Six Chapters of a Man’s Life (1903) – Anne-Marie Motard/Hubert Peres: George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War: The Discovery of Totalitarianism – Christine Reynier: Confronting Mediterranean and English Values in Clive Bell’s Civilisation and Art: Towards a Redefinition of Formalism – Martin Elsky: Erich Auerbach and Translatio Studii: The German Dante and the Transmission of the Catholic Mediterranean to the English-Speaking World.