The Second Landau-Paris Symposium on the Eighteenth Century (LAPASEC)

Contacts : Frédéric Ogée (ogee@paris7.jussieu.fr), Robert Mankin (mankin@paris7.jussieu.fr),

Peter Wagner (uldpw@rz.uni-saarland.de)

L’Imaginaire de la ruine en Grande-Bretagne (et au-delà) au 18ème siècle

Imagining Ruin(s) in 18th-Century Britain and the World

Paris, 17-18 septembre 2004

Université Paris 7, UFR d’Etudes anglophones

10 rue Charles V, 75004 Paris

Salle A50

Programme

17 septembre / 17 September

9h30 Ouverture / Opening

Robert Mankin (Université Paris 7), Frédéric Ogée (Université Paris 7), Peter Wagner (Universität Koblenz-Landau)

 

10h00 Première séance / First session

Michel Baridon (Université de Bourgogne), Président / Chair

10h00 Claude Rawson, Yale University

‘"Still Green with Bays Each Ancient Altar Stain'd: Versions of a Polluted Past’

10h45 Pause / Coffee break

11h00 Brean Hammond, University of Nottingham

‘The Ruins of Fair Rosamond: “Britishness” in the First Decade of the Eighteenth Century’

11h45 Madeleine Descargues, Université de Valenciennes

‘Swift and the Ruin(s) of History’

12h30 Pause déjeuner / Lunch break

14h30 Deuxième séance / Second session

Robert Mankin (Université Paris 7), Président / Chair

14h30 Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt University

‘Wreckage Remade: Artificial Ruins, Military Architecture and the Patriot Dilemma’

15h15 Uwe Böker, Universität Dresden

‘Ruins from Above and from Below: Picturesque Landscapes and Urban 'Pulling Down Houses' during the Gordon Riots’

16h00 Pause / Coffee break

16h15 Nadia Forté, Université Paris 7

‘Ann Radcliffe and the imagination of Gothic ruins : representing England’s nostalgia for totality’

18 septembre / 18 September

9h30 Troisième séance / Third session

Frédéric Ogée (Université Paris 7), Président / Chair

9h30 Catherine Purcell, Université d’Amiens

‘Representing ruins: convention and modernity in Joseph Wright's paintings’

 

10h15 Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon, Université Paris 8

‘Ruins of a Landscape: Fragmented Images of Scotland in the Enlightenment’

11h00 Pause / Coffee break

 

11h15 Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Université Paris 7

‘Ruins on the prairie: the vestiges of "great American civilizations" in the American West 1776-1830’

12h00 Pause déjeuner / Lunch break

14h00 Quatrième séance / Fourth session

Peter Wagner (Universität Koblenz-Landau), Président / Chair

14h00 Werner Wolf, Universität Graz

‘Artificial Textual Ruins: Position in a Typology of 'Fragmentation in Literature' and Major Functions in 18th-Century English Poetry and Fiction’

14h45 Daniel Brewer, University of Minnesota

‘Reading Among the Ruins’

15h30 Pause / Coffee break

15h45 David Skilton, Cardiff University

‘Future Ruins and the Struggle for Empire’

16h30 Discussion et fin / General discussion and end of conference