Abstract
This is the first instalment of a two-part thematic review of
nineteenth-century French research in the Anglophone sphere.
The review sets aside the standard sub-disciplinary categories in
order to envision a laboratorium, a space of multiple confluent
and contiguous lines of exploratory work. In this space, more
fluid thematic connections surface between projects irrespective
of their focus, their methodology, or their scale, revealing some
of the major transversal routes of research across the recent past
and the present, and, speculatively, into the future. The two-part
review explores biography / body / earth / emotion / experiment
/ movement / thing.
nineteenth-century French research in the Anglophone sphere.
The review sets aside the standard sub-disciplinary categories in
order to envision a laboratorium, a space of multiple confluent
and contiguous lines of exploratory work. In this space, more
fluid thematic connections surface between projects irrespective
of their focus, their methodology, or their scale, revealing some
of the major transversal routes of research across the recent past
and the present, and, speculatively, into the future. The two-part
review explores biography / body / earth / emotion / experiment
/ movement / thing.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 181–208 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| Journal | Dix-Neuf |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 3-4 |
| Early online date | 10 Jan 2022 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 28 Feb 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Kinesis and rhythm studies has shone searching light on processes of going slowly: Cheryl Krueger, Baudelaire and Procrastination (), is alert to the play of corporeal and textual rhythms. Mary Hunter’s project ‘Waiting: Slow Time in the Impressionist Era’, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, explores slowness through art works and architecture, events, and media (Hugo, Nadar, Morisot, Degas, Tissot, and Toulouse-Lautrec). See Hunter, ‘The Waiting Time of Prostitution: Gynaecology and Temporality in Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s Rue des Moulins, 1894’ (). The expanded field of the senses makes space for kinesis and forms of movement. On gesture and popular culture’s debt to evolution theory, see Rae Beth Gordon, Dances with Darwin, 1875–1910: Vernacular Modernity in France (). Julie Townsend, The Choreography of Modernism in France: La Danseuse 1830–1930 (), examines the mutations of the dancer, between classical dance and music-hall performance, and the dancer as a figure of creative agency for writers and artists. Bénédicte Jarasse, Les Deux Corps de la danse: imaginaire et représentations à l’âge romantique (Centre National de la Danse, ), is a panoramic study of Romantic ballet that foregrounds the mythography and the reality of the fallible body.
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Keywords
- Laboratorium
- interdisciplinarity
- Anglosphere
- transversal
- biography
- body
- earth